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| Iran Commander Denies Report of U.S. Drone Overflights |
| 2012-04-11 |
| [An Nahar] A top Iranian military commander on Tuesday denied a U.S. news report that the CIA has been successfully sending spy drones over Iran over the past three years. "No unmanned or manned (surveillance) aircraft have entered Iran's air space" apart from one U.S. stealth drone that was captured last December, Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili of the Revolutionary Guards' air defense command told the official IRNA news agency. He was reacting to a story in The Washington Post newspaper last weekend that said the Central Intelligence Agency sent its first surveillance drone over Iran three years ago with "never even a ripple" detected in Iran's air defenses. The report said CIA drones subsequently scoured dozens of sites in Iran, making hundreds of passes over suspicious facilities before the stealth drone -- an RQ-170 model -- crashed inside Iran's borders in December. The expanded intelligence collection reinforced the view within the White House that it will have early warning of any move by Iran to assemble a nuclear bomb within its disputed nuclear activities, the report said. But Esmaili was quoted as saying: "No surveillance unmanned aircraft has passed over Iran, and published photos were been (taken) by satellite systems." He said "you witnessed what happened" when the captured RQ-170 tried to make its flight in December. But while the Iranian commander insisted that U.S. drones had been unable to fly over Iran, he asserted that "drones operated by the Guards and the (Iranian) military have flown over American ships (in the Gulf) and have taken photos of them." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the CIA ... * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN DRONES [shared by Army + IRGC] CAPTURE IMAGES OF US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: COMMANDER ISMAILI. versus * SAME > [AEOI Chief Feredoun Abbasi] IRAN TRIPLES SEPARATION CAPACITY OF CENTRIFUGE MACHINES | IRAN HAS COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF NUCLEAR PRODUCTION PROCESSES [NucCycle]. * SAME > P5+1 WILL LOSE [in Near-term + Long-Term] WID ITS CONFRONTATIONAL ATTITUDE: IRANIAN LAWMAKER. ARTIC > IRAN = UN IAEA sorely underestimated Iran's nuclear proficiencies or capabilities. UN IAEA also read, US-WEST. * WAFF > AN ISRAELI AIR ATTACK FROM AZERBAYCAN AIR BASE COULD END IN [endless] IRAN-TURKEY WAR. Azerbaycan = aka Azerbaijan. BLOGGERS = In such a case, Turkey will have no choice but to side + support its Azeri kin, BUT IRAN CLAIMS AZERBAIJAN IS HISTORICALLY "PERSIAN" LAND, NOT TURKIC. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-04-11 22:41 |
| #2 "These are not the drones that are looking for us" /waves hand in an Islamic sort of way |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-04-11 20:12 |
| #1 I'm surprised the Iranians haven't overflown the White House with the super-sophisticated drones. All they'd have to do would be to edit out the Google logo... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2012-04-11 11:51 |