{"id":191836,"date":"2019-07-19T18:11:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T18:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191836"},"modified":"2019-07-23T06:23:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T06:23:40","slug":"iran-releases-drone-footage-of-uss-boxer-to-refute-trumps-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191836","title":{"rendered":"Iran Releases Drone Footage of USS Boxer to Refute Trump\u2019s Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<h1>Press TV \u2013 July 19, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gs_ZjHbpKzw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution\u00a0Guards Corps (IRGC) has released footage captured by an Iranian drone flying over the Strait of Hormuz and monitoring a United States Navy vessel, belying a claim by Washington that the unmanned aircraft was shot down by the American forces.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The IRGC\u2019s Public Relations Department said Friday that the footage had been released with the aim of exposing Washington\u2019s \u201clies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">US President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that the drone had been shot down after it flew to within 900 meters the US navy\u2019s USS Boxer\u00a0amphibious assault ship and ignored \u201cmultiple calls to stand down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Later, the Pentagon claimed the warship had taken \u201cdefensive action\u201d against an Iranian drone at 10 a.m. local time (0530 GMT) on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The IRGC said the American warships had been \u201cfully and precisely\u201d monitored for three hours, from the moment they entered the Strait of Hormuz, and that the Corps\u2019 drone bases had detected and recorded \u201cno unconventional and threatening action\u201d by the US forces on the USS Boxer accompanied by five vessels during that period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In an earlier statement, which the IRGC had released to announce its plan to release the footage, the elite force said the Iranian drone had successfully transmitted pictures of the US warship before and even after the time when the Americans claim they shot down the unmanned aerial aircraft (UAV), and then returned to its base safe and sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The statement described Washington\u2019s\u00a0claim as \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/07\/19\/601318\/Iran-drone-footage-USS-Boxer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian Revolutionary Guards said the footage had been released to expose Trump\u2019s \u201clies\u201d about the U.S. downing an Iranian 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