US confirms Iranian missile has shot down drone

BBC ^ | June 20, 2019 | BBC News

[Jyotishi]

Image caption: One US official identified the drone as a US Navy MQ-4C Triton

A US military drone has been shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile while in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, US officials say.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it shot down the drone over Iranian airspace, near Kuhmobarak in the southern province of Hormozgan.

IRGC commander Maj-Gen Hossein Salami said the incident sent "a clear message to America", state media said.

It comes at a time of escalating tension between the US and Iran.

On Monday, the US defence department said it was deploying 1,000 extra troops to the region in response to "hostile behaviour" by Iranian forces.

The US has accused Iran of attacking two oil tankers with mines last Thursday just outside the Strait of Hormuz, in the Gulf of Oman. Iran rejects the allegation.

Video caption The BBC's Mark Lowen reports: "It has sparked huge international tension"

[abb]

What better way to derail Trump’s re-election than ANOTHER Middle East war?

[mylife]

Lil Kim is at it too.

[867V309]

So what’s with all the propaganda about whos serving what?

you tell me.

[867V309]

I don't know how you can serve up revenge at a scale which is painful enough to be meaningful without revealing WHO served it up.

Stuxnet

[mylife]

Touche

[RandallFlagg]

I wouldn’t be surprised if (when) the enemedia opens every news show this morning with a, “Trump’s Fault,” narrative.

[mylife]

Who the hell am I?

I just asking questions.

[867V309]

Who the hell am I?

I just asking questions.

glad we cleared that up

[mylife]

Clear as mud :)

[Alberta's Child]

Good point. I would assume the Iranian government is a paid DNC contractor in all of these matters.

[abb]

And the Deep State. Was this a CIA drone, or a military drone?

[aces]

I smell desperation, let them rot, fly more drones, destroy large military complexes everytime they shoot at a drone..or anything in international waters..

[aces]

good point, if we have a rouge intel division doing this they should hang..

[mylife]

They are responding to sanctions, and trying to provoke sympathy.

They just need to comply.

Sadly many allies are used to sucking their ****s and are ready to blame us.

[nevergore]

"I have no love for the Mullahs, but they are not dumb enough to do this."

You really need to pay attention to history, they did this before, 20 years ago....

[mylife]

How did that go for them?

[867V309]

I smell desperation...

right.

and the worst for them is that their terrorist thugs, hezbulla and ham-ass, are weak from lack of iranian money.

without their lackey thugs, the mullas have no one to hide behind, it's all on them.

[Alberta's Child]

I’m scratching my head here, trying to figure out why any conservative would expect a foreign country to comply with international sanctions imposed by our government.

Didn’t we rejoice here when President Trump withdrew from the Paris Accords ... since it was an outrageous violation of U.S. sovereignty?

[mylife]

It reminds me of belligerent Chavez and Kim Jong Un.

How’s that workin for ya?

This will pass.

[867V309]

I’m scratching my head here, trying to figure out why any conservative would expect a foreign country to comply with international sanctions imposed by our government.

I'm a conservative. I expect a foreign countries to comply with international sanctions imposed by our government because of the consequences we will apply if they don't.

anything else?