TEHRAN: Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard claimed on Saturday that it had brought down a foreign surveillance drone during a military exercise in southern Iran.
“We have managed to bring down a drone of the enemy. This has happened before in our country,” the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted military exercise spokesman General Hamid Sarkheli as saying in Kerman, southeast Iran, where the military exercise is taking place.
“IRGC’s electronic warfare systems detected electronic signals, which indicated that foreign drones intended to enter our country,” the official IRNA news agency quoted the general as saying. “Our specialist forces then succeeded in bringing down the drone in the field of maneuvers.”
The agency gave no details on who the drone belonged to.
In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said he had seen the reports. He noted that the Iranians did not specifically claim that the drone was American.
