Reports: US drone shot down over Iran nuke site (xpost from LBN)

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Reports: US drone shot down over Iran nuke site

Source: Associated Press

Reports: US drone shot down over Iran nuke site
Lawmaker claims unmanned spy plane was gathering information about the plant
msnbc.com
updated 2 hours 8 minutes ago 2011-07-20T08:41:40

-A U.S. drone was shot down while flying over a nuclear facility in Iran, according to reports in the Iranian media.

Iran's Fars news agency reported that lawmaker Ali Aqazadeh Dafsari, a member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, had confirmed the unmanned spy plane was flying near the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant in Qom province when it was brought down by Revolutionary Guard soldiers.

It did not say when the alleged incident happened.

Dafsari told Fars that the drone was trying to gather information about the nuclear facility for the CIA.

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