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On 12 December 2011, the U.S. administration asked Iran to return the captured U.S. drone. [23] The day before, on 11 December, General Salami stated that "no nation welcomes other countries' spy drones in its territory, and no one sends back the spying equipment and its information back to the country of origin."
The Iranian government released footage of a captured RQ-170 on 8 December. [33] After examining the video that same day, U.S. officials confirmed that the drone was genuine. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] In April 2012, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh , the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps aerospace division, claimed that Iran had reverse ...
[24] Hajizadeh also talked about the manned American P-8 plane over Iran's territory, saying "With the U.S. drone in the region there was also an American P-8 plane with 35 people on board. This plane also entered our airspace and we could have shot it down, but we did not." [25] An RQ-4 Global Hawk similar to that downed by Iran.
Iran said Tuesday that its top court confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA, with state media alleging that he had shared details of the Islamic Republic's ...
After Amir Hekmati was released from Iranian custody in a 2016 deal trumpeted as a diplomatic breakthrough, he was declared eligible for $20 million from a special U.S. government fund as ...
A former soldier accused of passing secret information to Iran and escaping from prison first made contact with an Iranian intelligence officer by sending him a Facebook message, his trial has heard.
It is based on, but smaller than and substantially different from, a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel UAV that was captured by Iran in 2011 and then reverse-engineered. [5] It is one of two Iranian flying wing UAVs based on the RQ-170, along with the Shahed 171 Simorgh, a larger version. The Saegheh was revealed in October 2016. [6]
Qaher-313 in 2017. The managing director of the Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO), a subsidiary of the Defense Ministry, announced in a televised interview on 18 February 2023 that the fighter had reached technical maturity but would be reworked and fielded as an unmanned drone rather than a manned aircraft to adapt it to the requirements of Iranian military units, first deliveries ...