{"id":245363,"date":"2021-11-10T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=245363"},"modified":"2021-11-11T07:03:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:03:57","slug":"iran-says-warned-off-two-us-drones-during-war-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=245363","title":{"rendered":"Iran says warned off two US drones during war games"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>France24 \u2013 Nov 9, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_190228\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190228\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Global-Hawk-Block-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Global-Hawk-Block-40.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Global-Hawk-Block-40-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-190228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Global Hawk drone.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s military warned off two US drones which overflew waters where it was holding naval war games near the strategic Strait of Hormuz this week, state media reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The unmanned aircraft entered &#8220;two Iranian air defence identification zones&#8230; and changed course after air defence warned them it had decided to intercept them,&#8221; the official IRNA news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>It gave no date for the incident, which it said involved one MQ-9 Reaper drone and one RQ4+ Global Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>But the Zulfiqar 1400 war games began on Sunday and were wrapping up Tuesday with a parade of warships, including submarines, state television reported.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise extended over an area of more than a million square kilometres (around 400,000 square miles) in the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean beyond<\/p>\n<p>The manoeuvres began just days after Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards said they had thwarted a US attempt to seize a tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Sea of Oman.<\/p>\n<p>US defence officials rejected that account, saying the Iranians themselves had seized the tanker and taken it to Iranian waters. They said US warships and aircraft had only watched the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The incident followed a series of attacks on shipping in the sea lanes serving the Gulf, where a large portion of the world&#8217;s oil is produced.<\/p>\n<p>Iran was blamed for a July 29 drone strike on the tanker MT Mercer Street operated by a London-based firm ultimately owned by Israeli shipping magnate Eyal Ofer. The strike killed a former British soldier and a Romanian.<\/p>\n<p>Iran denied it was responsible for that attack, or others in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20211109-iran-says-warned-off-two-us-drones-during-war-games\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the drones changed their flight paths after the warnings suggests a new-found respect for Iran\u2019s air defences <\/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-245363","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\/245363","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=245363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245366,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245363\/revisions\/245366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}