BREAKING: US official says US drone was shot down in international airspace above the Strait of Hormuz, not Iranian airspace, and considers this to be an unprovoked attack.
FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates — A U.S. drone was shot down in international airspace above the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, a U.S. official said, contradicting a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that it had shot down the aircraft after it entered that country’s airspace.
The U.S. official said that a surface-to-air missile hit the RQ-4 Global Hawk in international airspace above the strait. The official said U.S. officials consider it an unprovoked attack. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement early Thursday that the U.S.-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down by its air force near the Kouh-e Mobarak region, which sits in the central district of Jask County, after the aircraft violated Iranian airspace.
The head of Iran’s national security council said the country’s airspace is its red line, and there would have been a firm response regardless of which country trespasses. Central Command spokesman Capt. Bill Urban previously said that “no U.S. drone was operating in Iranian airspace today.”for what they said was an attack on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has denied any involvement.
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