Iran shoots down US drone

[DevilPigeon]

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Iran threatens retaliation on foreign soil:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8934086/Iran-threatens-retaliation-after-drone-shot-down.html

[Laura Elina]

A piece of news on it on Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/04/us-iran-usa-drone-idUSTRE7B30CQ20111204

The story starts like this:

"(Reuters) - Iran's military said on Sunday it had shot down a U.S. 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 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."


My idea is that Iran has made such claims in the past as well, a couple of times this year... I believe?

[Operator]

My idea is that Iran has made such claims in the past as well, a couple of times this year... I believe?

In a flash of a sec. I read the article for what it perhaps really is ... :p


Iran's military said on Sunday it had shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran and warned it would retaliate on foreign soil for the incursion.

A British newspaper putting aggressive words in Iran's mouth to build up fear for Iran.
It clarifies why it is repeated so many times (as you said) and lacks the consequent actions ...

We have to be careful with parties telling us what other parties are supposed to have said !

[DevilPigeon]

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Agreed, but despite the lamestream media being biased to a large extent, what they spew out does tend to be indicative of what the upper echelons are thinking/planning/scheming etc...