Iran Confirms Attack on US Drone

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TEHRAN — Iran’s defense minister on Friday confirmed that Iranian warplanes had fired shots at an American drone last week, but said that they had taken the action after the unmanned aircraft had entered Iranian airspace.
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He said the intruder had been “forced to escape,” after action by Iran’s Air Force.
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"Early last week, a U.S. drone which had violated Iran’s airspace received a decisive response by the armed forces that were stationed in the region,” he said in a Friday interview with the Young Journalist Club, a semiofficial Iranian news agency. He said the drone had “entered our country’s airspace with an aim to gather information because there is no other justification.”

The Predator’s sensor technology is so sophisticated that it could have monitored activities in Iran from the distance cited by the Pentagon officials.


The Iranian firing on the aircraft had been completely legal, Mr. Jokar said. “Any violation against Iran’s airspace, territorial waters and land will receive a strong response by the Islamic republic of Iran

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/world/middleeast/iran-confirms-drone-shooting-episode.html?_r=0

 

[RickyJ]

Good for them. They can't sit around and let us gather intelligence to then bomb them to hell.

 

[tommy949]

Obama decides to harass Iran with US drones

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323894704578109380625198190.html
Guess, the establishment doesn't understand that it should stop going to war.

 

[satchelmcqueen]

somehow the us government will blame iran for doing what it did....as the bad guys.

 

[Occam's Banana]

somehow the us government will blame iran for doing what it did....as the bad guys.

Of course they will. Who else but a buncha whackadoo Mooslums would dare to defend their airspace against us? Why, that just proves they're crazy, right there!