{"id":190265,"date":"2019-06-21T07:20:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190265"},"modified":"2019-06-24T06:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T06:38:19","slug":"iran-releases-video-of-us-drone-downing-over-its-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190265","title":{"rendered":"Iran Releases Video of US Drone Downing over Its Airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Fars News \u2013 June 21, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_97304\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ayatollah-Ali-Khamenei-veiws-the-Third-of-Khordad-Air-Defence-system.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97304\" class=\"wp-image-97304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ayatollah-Ali-Khamenei-veiws-the-Third-of-Khordad-Air-Defence-system.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei views the Third of Khordad Air Defence system. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) released a video showing how the advanced US-made unmanned plane was shot down at dawn on Thursday after entering the country&#8217;s airspace and violating international aviation regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran shot down the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone in the country\u2019s Southern coastal province of Hormozgan on Thursday. The American spying drone was brought down near the Kouh-e Mobarak region in the Central district of Jask in\u00a0Hormozgan province after the aircraft violated Iran&#8217;s airspace.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tehran Releases Video of US Black Hawk Shot Down over Iranian Sky <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m7uzgfLb1n\">pic.twitter.com\/m7uzgfLb1n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fars News Agency (@EnglishFars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglishFars\/status\/1141769367471964166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The IRGC Aerospace Force announced in a statement that it used the Iran-made short-range and mid-altitude &#8216;Third of Khordad&#8217; missile defense shield to bring down the US spy drone over the country&#8217;s Southern coasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Also, in a second video released later, Iran showed the flight plan of the US drone and the exact location where it was intercepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran Releases Second Video to Show Flight Route of Downed US Drone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LzWrLvRpHB\">pic.twitter.com\/LzWrLvRpHB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fars News Agency (@EnglishFars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglishFars\/status\/1141788336840986624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Commander of the IRGC Major General Hossein Salami stressed that the move should alert Washington officials to stay away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The incident sent &#8220;a clear message&#8221; to the US and other enemies that Iran will show a firm and crushing response to any aggression, Salami stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Borders are our red lines and any enemy which violates them will not go back home and will be annihilated. The only way for enemies is to respect Iran&#8217;s territorial integrity and national interests,&#8221; the major general noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also stated on Thursday that Tehran &#8220;will take this US new aggression to [the] UN and show that the US is lying about international waters&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Iranian top diplomat stressed that Tehran does not want war, &#8220;but will zealously defend our skies, land and waters&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.farsnews.com\/newstext.aspx?nn=13980330000899\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran releases videos of the incident as it warns it does not want war but that it will defend &#8220;our skies, land and waters&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190267,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190265\/revisions\/190267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}