Iran shoots down US spy plane

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TEHRAN - Iran's military said on Sunday it had shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran, a military source told state television.

"Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted the unnamed source as saying.

"The spy drone, which has been downed with little damage, was seized by the Iranian armed forces."

Iran's response to the downed US drone's violation of its airspace will not be limited to the country's borders, a military source told state television.

"The Iranian military's response to the American spy drone's violation of our airspace will not be limited to Iran's borders any more," Iran's Arabic language Al Alam television quoted the military source as saying, without giving details.

Iran shot down the drone at a time when it is trying to contain foreign reaction to the storming of the British embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, shortly after London announced that it would impose sanctions on Iran's central bank in connection with Iran's controversial nuclear enrichment program.

Britain evacuated its diplomatic staff from Iran and expelled Iranian diplomats in London in retaliation, and several other EU members recalled their ambassadors from Tehran.

The attack dragged Iran's relations with Europe to a long-time low.

Washington and EU countries have been discussing measures to restrict Iran's oil exports since the United Nations nuclear watchdog issued a report in November with what it said was evidence that Tehran had worked on designing an atom bomb.

Iran says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful.

In related news, Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese website al-Intiqad on Sunday posted what they claim to be pictures of Israeli spy devices that IAF aircraft destroyed on Friday after they had been discovered in southern Lebanon.

Two people were injured Friday during an explosion in the southern Lebanese towns of Srifa and Deir Kifa, Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star reported.

The report suggested that the explosion may have been caused by an IDF drone, but also speculated that it was a result of a cluster bomb.

Jerusalem has alleged that Iran has heavily armed Hezbollah by transferring weapons through Syria.
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mattseh said:
srsly though, Iran have every right to do this.
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Yeah but, world war three.


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I don't believe a single thing the media says anymore. This is the exact same storyline bullshit that was presented to us leading up to, and during the Iraq invasion. The IAEA report, Britain embassy attack, a couple explosions in Iran, only one of which Iran confirmed, now a drone gets shot down, and so on.

It's all bullshit.

Not to mention there's this little voice in my head saying the US has a slight advantage in military technology over Iran. So if this drone actually did get shot down, the US either allowed it, or intended for it to be shot down. That little voice says if the US doesn't want one of their high-tech planes to get shot down, it's not going to get shot down, and definitely not by Iranian defenses.

Not to mention, why the hell is the US flying recon drones into Iran? They have satellite technology that can count the number of leg hairs I have.
 
Kiopa_Matt said:
I don't believe a single thing the media says anymore. This is the exact same storyline bullshit that was presented to us leading up to, and during the Iraq invasion. The IAEA report, Britain embassy attack, a couple explosions in Iran, only one of which Iran confirmed, now a drone gets shot down, and so on.

It's all bullshit.

Not to mention there's this little voice in my head saying the US has a slight advantage in military technology over Iran. So if this drone actually did get shot down, the US either allowed it, or intended for it to be shot down. That little voice says if the US doesn't want one of their high-tech planes to get shot down, it's not going to get shot down, and definitely not by Iranian defenses.

Not to mention, why the hell is the US flying recon drones into Iran? They have satellite technology that can count the number of leg hairs I have.
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US Military hardware is far from invincible. Also, most drones are designed to be expendable, so stealth isn't a high priority. Sats exist, sure, but can view a limited number of targets of interest at once.

LotsOfZeros is right, Iran is good at propaganda. See: PressTV
 
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