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Iran: No information on Iranian drone US shot down
Iran says it has no information about an unmanned Iranian surveillance aircraft the US has reported it shot down last month over Iraq.
- Agencies
- Published: 15:01 March 17, 2009
Tehran: Iran says it has no information about an unmanned Iranian surveillance aircraft the US has reported it shot down last month over Iraq.
Reports of the incident are “ambiguous'', Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hasan Qashqavi said on Tuesday.
The US military said on Monday it shot down the Iranian drone northeast of Baghdad after tracking it for about 70 minutes.
The military said the drone's presence over Iraq was not an accident.
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