Times of Islamabad

Iranian Military claims shooting down yet another drone

Iranian Military claims shooting down yet another drone

DUBAI – Iranian Military claims shooting down yet another drone.

Iran had shot down a drone over its southern port city of Mahshahr, withoutproviding further details.

The Iran Front Page website did not say whether it was a military orcivilian drone. Iranian officials were not available to comment.

The Young Journalists Club (YJC), affiliated to Iran’s state broadcasting,said “an unknown flying object” had been shot down by the Iranian army,adding that the report had yet to be confirmed by Iranian officials.

Relations between Iran and the United States have worsened since last yearwhen President Donald Trump pulled out of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal withworld powers and reimposed sanctions on the country.

In June, Iran shot down an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone, which theelite Revolutionary Guards said was flying over southern Iran. Washingtonsaid the U.S. drone had been shot down by Iran in international airspaceover the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf.