Iran – A senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Sunday that Iran had documents to prove that a US drone had entered Iranian airspace.
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IRGC deputy commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami’s comments came a week after Pentagon officials announced that Iranian Su-25 fighter jets had fired on an unarmed US Predator drone on November 1 as it conducted what they said was routine surveillance in international airspace east of Kuwait, 16 miles off the coast of Iran.
The IRGC commander said that the documents proved that Iran’s air force had not conducted any act of aggression against any aircraft in international airspace. Iran was aware of international law regarding “incursions from alien aircraft”, Salami added.
“Certainly if the situation had been otherwise we would never have fired [at the drone],” Salami was quoted as saying by Mashregh News, a website close to the IRGC.
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