Tehran: A senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday that Iranian military forces have shot down several spy planes of foreign forces, adding that two of these planes have been shot down over the Persian Gulf.
Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told “Payam Engelab” (Message of the Revolution), a monthly publication of IRGC, that western forces in the region have made limited aggressions against Iran, and “we have, thus far, shot down a large number of their highly advanced spy planes”.
Gen Hajizadeh said that two of these planes have been shot down in the Persian Gulf.
He said that Iran has shot down many foreign planes, but did not reveal it to the media, “and this is the first time that we reveal this news”.
The commander declined to mention the exact date and location of the development.
After shooting down these planes the IRGC aerospace unit has copied and produced them in large numbers through reverse engineering, he added.
Earlier, in January 2007, an Iranian lawmaker told FNA that military troops have shot down a US spy plane while trying to enter Iranian border.
“Americans send such spy drones to the region every now and then,” the lawmaker further pointed out.
Also in May 2010, Commander of the Iranian Army Major General Ataollah Salehi said that Iran’s air-defence units shooed away a US military reconnaissance plane seeking to approach the Iranian Army’s wargame zone in the Strait of Hormuz and Northern Indian Ocean.
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