{"id":191828,"date":"2019-07-19T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191828"},"modified":"2019-07-20T05:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T05:25:10","slug":"us-may-have-shot-down-own-drone-in-persian-gulf-iran-says-of-trumps-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191828","title":{"rendered":"US may have shot down own drone in Persian Gulf, Iran says of Trump\u2019s claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 July 19, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Iran has rejected US President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that a US warship had shot down an Iranian Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe have not lost any drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else,\u201d Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi said in a tweet on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI am worried that USS Boxer has shot down their own UAS by mistake!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have not lost any drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else. I am worried that USS Boxer has shot down their own UAS by mistake!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/araghchi\/status\/1152081448704196611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 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;\">Later on Friday, a spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces also rejected the US president\u2019s claim, saying the claim is aimed at creating tension and disrupting security in the strategic waterway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Unlike Trump\u2019s delusional and groundless claim, all drones belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, including the one mentioned by the US president, have returned to their bases safe and sound after carrying out their scheduled surveillance and control operations,\u201d Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran always feel duty-bound to protect, control, and safeguard the security of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz with full vigilance while observing international regulations,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The comments came after President Trump claimed that the USS Boxer had fired on an Iranian drone on Thursday, shooting it down in the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0The US president claimed\u00a0that Iran\u2019s drone \u201cwas immediately destroyed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It came almost a month after the IRGC\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/06\/20\/598942\/Iran-IRGC-US-spy-drone\">shot down<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>an intruding American spy drone in the country\u2019s southern coastal province of Hormozgan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Thursday, Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it had seized a foreign ship that was\u00a0smuggling fuel\u00a0in the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/07\/19\/601296\/Iran-Araqchi-US-drone-Persian-Gulf-Strait-Hormuz-\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190309\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IRGC-Commander-with-debris-from-the-downed-Global-Hawk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190309\" class=\"wp-image-190309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IRGC-Commander-with-debris-from-the-downed-Global-Hawk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IRGC-Commander-with-debris-from-the-downed-Global-Hawk.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IRGC-Commander-with-debris-from-the-downed-Global-Hawk-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commander of the Aerospace Division of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Amir Ali Hajizadeh looks at debris from a downed US drone in Tehran on June 21, 2019. The U.S. has yet to prove any evidence to corroborate its claims that it shot down an Iranian drone. Is the U.S. simply trying to recover its standing after the downing of the Global Hawk drone? Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike pictures of the Global Hawk\u2019s wreckage, we have not seen any film or photos of the downed \u201cIranian drone\u201d yet. Did the U.S. really shoot down an Iranian drone? Or is this just a propaganda ploy?<\/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-191828","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\/191828","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=191828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191831,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191828\/revisions\/191831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}