Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said that it shot down a U.S. military drone early Thursday, heightening already strained tensions between Washington and Tehran.
The Guard said it shot down the drone over Hormozgan Province in southern Iran, Tehran’s state news agency, IRNA, reported.
“Shooting down of the US spy drone has a clear message and it is the fact that the defenders of this country are ready to give decisive response to any aggression,” Major-General Hossein Salami, who commands the Guard, said, according to the state news agency.
Two U.S. officials, however, told The Associated Press that the incident happened in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz.
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This stinks of “Gulf of Tonkin”. Will we dragged into another war we can’t win? If things are dangerous in the Middle East now, just think of how bad it will be if we go to war with Iran. HaShem should protect us all