Tehran, Dec 12 (ANI): Iran has said that it would not return a recently downed American surveillance drone.
General Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, said in a television interview that the violation of Iran's airspace by the US drone was a "hostile act" and warned of a "bigger" response. He did not elaborate on what Tehran might do.
"No one returns the symbol of aggression to the party that sought secret and vital intelligence related to the national security of a country," the Telegraph quoted Salami, as saying.
Salami said that the capturing of the spy plane, identified as the RQ-170 Sentinel drone, was a victory for Iran and a defeat for the US in a complicated intelligence and technological battle.
"Iran is among the few countries that possesses the most modern technology in the field of pilotless drones. The technology gap between Iran and the US is not much," he said.
Revolutionary Guard officers had previously claimed that the country's armed forces brought down the surveillance aircraft with an electronic ambush, causing minimum damage to the drone.merican officials, however, said that US intelligence assessments indicate that Iran neither shot the drone down, nor used electronic or cybertechnology to force it from the sky. They contend the drone malfunctioned.
But Salami refused to provide more details of Iran's claim to have captured the CIA-operated aircraft.
"A party that wins in an intelligence battle doesn't reveal its methods. We can't elaborate on the methods we employed to intercept, control, discover and bring down the pilotless plane," the paper quoted him, as saying. (ANI)
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