The shootdown follows weeks of escalating tensions between Tehran and Washington, including mine explosions on two oil tankers that the Trump administration has blamed on Iran.
A Navy reconnaissance drone was shot down by a missile fired from Iran, the Pentagon said Thursday, but U.S. and Iranian military officials disputed whether the unmanned aircraft was in Iranian airspace.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said the U.S. drone was downed when it flew into Iranian airspace in Hormozgan province near the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency. Abbas Mousavi, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, said Iran cannot condone the"illegal trespassing and invading of the country's skies by any kind of foreign flying object," according to the semiofficial Tasnim news agency.
On Thursday, Navy Commander Sean Kido, who is leading the investigation into the tanker explosions, told reporters that “the limpet mine that was used in the attack” resembled “Iranian mines that have already been publicly displayed in Iranian military parades.”
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