Iran said Thursday it would go to the UN to prove that a US spy drone
it shot down had entered Iranian airspace, contrary to Washington's
claims
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"We'll take this new aggression to #UN & show that the US is lying about international waters," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted, after a US general said the drone was taken down some 34 kilometres (21 miles) off the Iranian coast.
"The US wages #EconomicTerrorism on Iran, has conducted covert action against us & now encroaches on our territory," he wrote.
"We don't seek war, but will zealously defend our skies, land & waters."
With tensions soaring between the two countries following a series of attacks against tankers in the Gulf, the Pentagon confirmed a US surveillance drone had been shot down by Iranian forces.
But it insisted the unmanned aircraft was in international airspace.
ran said the "US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone" was hit with a missile "after violating Iranian air space" over the waters of Hormozgan province on the Strait of Hormuz.
Note EU-Digest: The US statement about the position of their spy-drone is laughable. Doesn't the name "Spy Drone" already identifies this drone as a vehicle that is intended to spy on movements of "the owner's enemies". So the fact that the spy drone is near to what "the owner" of that spy drone considers as its enemy, already provides enough logical evidence to that enemy, that it represents a danger to them and needs to be shot down.
Read more at: Iran says will take drone incident to UN to show US 'lying'
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"We'll take this new aggression to #UN & show that the US is lying about international waters," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted, after a US general said the drone was taken down some 34 kilometres (21 miles) off the Iranian coast.
"The US wages #EconomicTerrorism on Iran, has conducted covert action against us & now encroaches on our territory," he wrote.
"We don't seek war, but will zealously defend our skies, land & waters."
With tensions soaring between the two countries following a series of attacks against tankers in the Gulf, the Pentagon confirmed a US surveillance drone had been shot down by Iranian forces.
But it insisted the unmanned aircraft was in international airspace.
ran said the "US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone" was hit with a missile "after violating Iranian air space" over the waters of Hormozgan province on the Strait of Hormuz.
Note EU-Digest: The US statement about the position of their spy-drone is laughable. Doesn't the name "Spy Drone" already identifies this drone as a vehicle that is intended to spy on movements of "the owner's enemies". So the fact that the spy drone is near to what "the owner" of that spy drone considers as its enemy, already provides enough logical evidence to that enemy, that it represents a danger to them and needs to be shot down.
Read more at: Iran says will take drone incident to UN to show US 'lying'
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