Dubai: Iran’s air defence force has shot down an “unknown” drone in the country’s south-west, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday.
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The agency said that Iranian forces hit the drone in the early morning at Mahshahr, which is in the oil-rich Khuzestan province and lies on the Arabian Gulf.
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The report did not say whether the drone was a military or commercially available device.
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Provincial governor Gholamreza Shariati told IRNA that the drone belonged to a “foreign” country and that parts of the drone had been recovered in a nearby lagoon.
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He said the drone had violated Iran’s airspace.
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In June, Iran shot down a US surveillance drone in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Tehran said the drone “violated” its territorial airspace, while the US called the missile fire “an unprovoked attack” in international airspace over the narrow mouth of the Arabian Gulf.
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Regional tensions remain high over Tehran’s collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, which the US unilaterally withdrew from over a year ago.
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