{"id":197603,"date":"2019-11-08T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197603"},"modified":"2019-11-12T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T07:43:53","slug":"iran-downs-intruding-foreign-drone-over-persian-gulf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197603","title":{"rendered":"Iran downs ‘intruding foreign’ drone over Persian Gulf coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Nov 8, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Iran’s Bavar 373 long range air defence system. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Iran\u2019s Army has shot down an unidentified drone that was violating Iran\u2019s airspace near the port city of Mahshahr in the southwestern province of Khuzestan on the Persian Gulf coast.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Commander of the Iranian Army\u2019s Air Defense Force Brigadier General Alireza Sabahi Fard said the intruding unmanned aerial vehicle was brought down early Friday before it could reach “sensitive areas” thanks to the precision of Iran\u2019s domestically-produced air defense system.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This decisive move and the firing of a missile were a reaction to the intrusion by a\u00a0foreign drone into our country’s airspace,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The senior military commander did not specify which country the drone belongs to but emphasized that Iran has repeatedly warned that it is fully prepared to give a firm response to any violation of its airspace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, governor of Khuzestan Gholam Reza Shariati told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that the wreckage of the aircraft has been recovered and is being investigated.<\/span><\/p>\n

He emphasized that the downed drone “definitely belonged to a foreign country” and said the results of investigations would be announced later on.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June and in an episode of a similar nature, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) shot down an American spy drone in the country\u2019s southern coastal province of Hormozgan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Global Hawk drone. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

In a statement, the IRGC said the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down by its Air Force near the Kouh-e Mobarak region \u2014 which sits in the central district of Jask County \u2014 after the aircraft violated the Iranian airspace.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran claims to have shot down another “foreign” drone near its Persian Gulf coast. If true it confirms that Iran’s air defences are more formidable than the West bargained for <\/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-197603","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\/197603","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=197603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197606,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197603\/revisions\/197606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}