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Iran says it's 'completely ready for war' after US official confirms it shot down American drone
In a major provocation, Iran shot down an unarmed and unmanned U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton drone while it was flying in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, a U.S. official told ABC News.
The incident is sure to trigger serious discussions within the Trump administration about how to respond to a direct attack on a U.S. military asset that goes beyond recent attacks in the Middle East that the U.S. has blamed on Iran.
Gulf crisis: US confirms drone was shot down by Iranian missile
A US military surveillance drone has been shot down by Iranian forces while flying over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said the drone had violated Iranian airspace. But US military said it had been over international waters. IRGC commander-in-chief Maj-Gen Hossein Salami said the downing of the drone sent a "clear message to America" that Iran's borders were its "red line".
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 also 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.
Previously: Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @03:16PM (10 children)
How is that? I'm not being snarky, I'm just unaware of the part of the treaty that allows "cheating."
Would you please elucidate?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @03:36PM (4 children)
You are allowed to be both. In my opinion USA flying a drone in the Hormuz strait was obviously domestic business when you look at the map.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @03:41PM (2 children)
Huh? what does that have to do with the Iran nuclear treaty?
Non-sequitur much?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @04:57PM (1 child)
That you can be be both snarky and ask a legitimate question? Or my sarcastic comment that a US drone in the hormuz strait is domestic american business?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @07:26PM
Exactly. That's why we need borders!
If Obama hadn't been so weak, Iran could never have done this on our territory like they just did.
USA! USA! USA!
#MAGA Motherfucker!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 20 2019, @09:26PM
Oh yes. The map of where the drone was flying, supplied by the US military, who always tell the truth and never attempt to manufacture new wars for no good reason.
*cough* Gulf of Tonkin *cough*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @03:44PM (4 children)
Supposedly Israel discovered a warehouse just full of items which proved that Iran was still interested in developing weapons in spite of the treaty. (This despite the fact that the treaty makes no mention of Iran allowing to retain information already developed to date). So Netanyahu went all public about how Iran was lying about wanting deproliferation and "cheating" on the deal because of the warehouse and tried to command the IAEA to inspect the warehouse. IAEA has since done so but not released any final conclusions yet (some are due this month).
It's about like saying somebody cheated at Texas Hold 'Em because they discovered that dealing the turn card was allowed but that might just allow the other player to win the hand.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 20 2019, @09:29PM (3 children)
Wow. I did not think anyone actually believed that.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @09:49PM
Neither did I until I remembered that a person may be smart but People Are Stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @08:38AM
The warehouse was full of crashed drone parts and limpet mines. Nettanyahoo swears it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @09:53AM
Well I'm sure many believed this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html [nytimes.com]
That was like the Israelis saying: "We saw the Russians steal stuff from your house. Trust us, it was definitely the Russians, we were right there while they were doing it!"
LOLZ.
Basically if any evidence is from the Israeli or US Gov alone I'm going think false flag or lies.
It's more convincing if somehow the US and Russian/Chinese Gov agree on the same thing.