Posted on 11/07/2005 7:17:15 PM PST by markedmannerf
Iran says it has found the wreckage of two US unmanned spy planes on its territory in recent months, accusing the US of violating its sovereignty through illegal overflights.
The Foreign Ministry says Iran "strongly protests against such unlawful acts and emphasises the necessity to observe the principles of international law concerning the sanctity of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states".
The Pentagon has no immediate comment to the protest, which came in letters to the US Government written months ago but only made public at the United Nations on Monday.
They described the crash of a Shadow 200 RQ-7 drone in Ilam Province last July 4, 60 kilometres from the border, and of a Hermes drone in the Khoram Abad area on August 25, found 200 kilometres inside Iranian territory.
The Foreign Ministry says the investigation found that both of the unmanned aircraft were American.
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Are they being hypocrites again?
Or maaaaaybe... we wanted them to crash. (I'm serious.)
OOPS! I wonder if we got any good pictures on the way down?
Iran "emphasises the necessity to observe the principles of international law concerning the sanctity of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states".
Iran better get with it, open borders are the wave of the future.
They saw an inversion layer caused by SWAMP GAS. No? Ummm...it was a research UAV collecting atmospheric data and wandered off course....? Lemme think...
The Foreign Ministry says Iran "strongly protests against such unlawful acts and emphasises the necessity to observe the principles of international law concerning the sanctity of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states".
Don't know, it's kind of hard to tell. Something about Iran screeching over unlawful acts and international law..............What idiot loaned the Iranian Foreign Ministry an international law book?
>The Foreign Ministry says Iran "strongly protests against such unlawful acts and emphasises the necessity to observe the principles of international law concerning the sanctity of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states".
So why do they send terrorists to Iraq then?
We've got your sanctity... RIGHT HERE.
Mullahs should bow to their gods and thank them. Coulda been W88s.
Don't these drones have a particularly nasty missile onboard and what would happen to this missile if the drone crashed?
why not protest it at our embassy ??? Oh yeah they screwed that up.
There was some car Yemeni toast that would attest to this?
Rules are for kafirs, not for those who are eagerly awaiting the return of the 12th Imam, last seen 1300 years ago climbing down a well in what is now called Iran (I kid you not).
I hope whatever drone or spy device used has a self destruct so we don't lose any more technology to the enemy
Next one should have a nuke bolted on.
Probably lost contact with their controllers on the ground and just kept going 'til they ran out of fuel or crashed for lack of guidance.
Of course the Iranians are going to jump all over anything that might make them look like victims.
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