Did Iran Shoot Down A U.S. Spy Drone?

The report claims that Iran's Revolutionary Guards shot down a U.S. spy plane near the city of Qom. Radio Free Europe

Did Iran Just Shoot Down a U.S. Stealth Drone? -- The Danger Room

For the third time this year, Iran is claiming it shot down an American robot warplane trying to snoop on Tehran’s nuclear facilities. “An unmanned U.S. spy plane flying over the holy city of Qom near the uranium enrichment Fordu site was shot down by the Revolutionary Guards’ air-defense units,” lawmaker Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari told Iranian state television.

As with all “news” reports coming from Tehran’s official media apparatus, it’s wise to take Dafsari’s claim with a grain of salt. Notably, no one is showing off any fresh wreckage of an American robot — a popular pastime in other countries where drones have gone down.

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