White House: No Evidence Iran Drone Claim is True
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Iran said on Tuesday it captured a small U.S. drone that penetrated its airspace over Gulf waters, but the White House and the U.S. Navy in the region denied the report.
The naval arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said in a statement on the Guards website Sepahnews.com that "the unmanned U.S. drone patrolling Persian Gulf waters, performing reconnaissance and gathering intel, was captured as soon as it entered Iranian airspace."
The statement did not say how the aircraft was captured, nor where or when the incident took place. It said only that the drone had been conducting a mission over "the past few days."
The Guards' naval force, tasked with guarding Iranian assets in the Gulf, said the drone was a Boeing-made ScanEagle, a short-range, propeller-driven surveillance vehicle with a three-meter wingspan that is typically launched from ships and which can fly up to 100 kilometers (60 miles).
Exactly a year ago, on December 4, Iran claimed to have captured a much bigger and more sophisticated CIA stealth drone, a bat-winged RQ-170 Sentinel. Tehran rejected a U.S. request for its return and said it would reverse-engineer that drone to make its own.
At the time, Iran claimed it had brought down the RQ-170 drone electronically, by "spoofing" its GPS guidance system. U.S. officials contended the drone suffered a malfunction.
For the ScanEagle, no explanation was immediately advanced by the Iranians as to how they might have seized it.
The White House said Tuesday it had no evidence that Iran's claim was true.
"We have no evidence that the Iranian claims you cite are true," White House spokesman Jay Carney told a reporter.
A spokesman for U.S. Fifth Fleet, Commander Jason Salata, told AFP that none of the fleet's drones was missing and that "nothing (has been) lost recently, in months."
Salata also said all of the Fifth Fleet's operations in the Gulf "are in compliance with international law," implying that any flights conducted were outside of Iranian airspace.
Several countries apart from the United States use the relatively low-cost ScanEagle drones, including U.S. allies the United Arab Emirates, Australia and Canada, all of which operate in the Gulf.
U.S. forces in Iraq also used them before their withdrawal in October 2011.
Iranian state television networks Al-Alam and Press TV showed footage of what they said was the captured ScanEagle drone.
The light-gray, unmarked vehicle was shown suspended inside a hangar and apparently intact, with two Guards officers examining it in front of a poster saying, in English: "We shall trample on the U.S."
A lawmaker who chairs the Iranian parliament's defense commission, Esmaeel Kosari, boasted to Al-Alam of the drone's capture and warned of a "decisive confrontation" if Iranian airspace was violated again.
Foreign Minster Ali Akbar Salehi told state television Iran would protest the incident in international bodies.
"We had officially warned the Americans against violating our territory. Unfortunately they did not listen, and the Guards managed to catch the U.S. drone," Salehi said.
"The captured drone is proof to be used to follow up the American violation at international bodies," Salehi said.
Iran's foreign ministry said last week the United States had violated Iranian airspace eight times in October, and warned of a "serious reaction" if such incursions continued.
On November 1, Iranian fighter jets fired on a U.S. Predator drone in the Gulf but failed to bring it down, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
Iran said the Predator had been on a reconnaissance mission near Bushehr, which hosts its only nuclear power plant, as well as its main oil terminal at Kharg island.
The latest drone claim adds to military tensions between the two arch-foes in the Gulf.
Iran is subject to U.S. surveillance, notably over its controversial nuclear program, which the West fears is being used to develop atomic weapons capability.
Tehran denies its nuclear activities are anything but peaceful. It refuses to comply with repeated U.N. Security Council resolutions demanding it suspend uranium enrichment.
04 December 2012, 11:16
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Wow a single drone huh? There's HUNREDS in the air. It's like a kid throwing a rock and by luck hits one bird out of a flock of thousands, than runs around like he's king of the world :P. Let the baby have is bottle...oh yeah and get his brother over in Lebanon to go on TV and blabber, cheers.
04 December 2012, 11:37
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I wasn't talking about about that MacGuyver, I was talking how their taking something minor and over-dramaticizing it, very typical of them really. Interesting simile you used, very kosher.
04 December 2012, 13:25
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FT, sounds like you have grown a beard, and button your shirt to the top without wearing a tie... Khosh Amadid, bet you've been enjoying joojeh kebab lately.
04 December 2012, 11:23
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the Iranian cronies need anything to rejoice :)
so what?
you forget about the satellites?
by GOD: you are laughable and you demonstrate it in each of your comments.
04 December 2012, 11:26
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That's from all the hashish, and yes pink elephants that fly are also protecting them.
04 December 2012, 11:34
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you are the ones who need to pack and leave fast now that your protector is going to die.
04 December 2012, 12:48
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I agree with you. This is why the US handed Iraq to Iran. More gifts to come their way. Only fools are blind.
04 December 2012, 14:35
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Then how do you explain the US sanctions that are crippling the Iranian economy where the currency is about 40% downn (last time i checked).
04 December 2012, 18:13
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FT only history will tell.
and lebcan, hungry people will revolt and it is not in the interrest of the rulers. There are limits...
04 December 2012, 15:35
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No the only fools are the People of America, Lebanon, Iran and the whole world who believe this garbage... QUESTION???
How does an advanced aircraft such as those drones manage to survive the flight and land without American remote pilot guidance after it was (computer hacked?!) .. Simple the Americans gave it to the Iranians to prepare for the next Middle East soap-opera.
Remember 911? remember how those buildings came down at free fall speed like through air without resistance and straight down???
Including building 7 which just had a fire!!!
Don't believe the official lines boys and girls. know that its nothing but deception.
America and Israel will huff and puff all day long in front of the TV but they will never attach Iran because Iran is their co-actor!!!
Question and Demand answers !!!
04 December 2012, 15:31
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No the only fools are the People of America, Lebanon, Iran and the whole world who believe this garbage... QUESTION???
How does an advanced aircraft such as those drones manage to survive the flight and land without American remote pilot guidance after it was (computer hacked?!) .. Simple the Americans gave it to the Iranians to prepare for the next Middle East soap-opera.
Remember 911? remember how those buildings came down at free fall speed like through air without resistance and straight down???
Including building 7 which just had a fire!!!
Don't believe the official lines boys and girls. know that its nothing but deception.
America and Israel will huff and puff all day long in front of the TV but they will never attach Iran because Iran is their co-actor!!!
Question and Demand answers !!!
04 December 2012, 16:55
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@theresistance, look for a long time in my life i have read, watched, listened, observed and experianced many mediums of information and ill tell you this! don't believe everything you are spoon feed. Do you realy think I'm with M14 just because? I don't trust any of them even if the fact m8 and m14 despise each other. each has an agenda for them selves to be a proxi for the western or eastern powers respectfully...
And YES! I do NOT! want the Hizbshiatan resistance, I want it finished!!! OK... Because like any civilized country a mafia should not be the resistance ... That's like asking the fox to watch the hens. LOL....
Question and Demand answers!!!
And the formula is PEOPLE + ARMY = Resistance!!!
Just so you don't miss understand the PEOPLE part of the equation YA ZAKEE ;)
PEOPLE is equall to Shia, Sunni, Druze, Christians...etc. Okay YA ZAKEE.
04 December 2012, 21:43
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"it's considered haram, and they're not like salafis who allow themselves to do things forbidden by islam in the name of islam."
good you believe what you write. such a naive person, a real piece of art...
iran never do things that are haram! best joke of the day, thanks!
04 December 2012, 22:03
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The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Babylonians and Egyptians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy
you can stop attributing things to iran out of pure booty kissing.. and actually research before you humiliate yourself... p.s. Al gabr is an arabic word.. not a persian one..learn mowaten.. learn... it will do you good.
04 December 2012, 22:07
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The systematic study of mathematics in its own right began with the Ancient Greeks between 600 and 300 BC
just to show you there is no Iran, persia.. or any variation of the word..
05 December 2012, 07:31
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and this folks is where he sticks his head in the ground and still tries to act smart. tsk tsk.. you pulled the same idiotic actions resistance pulled with the churchill misquote... hahaha now we have a better gauge of everyone who is M8.
05 December 2012, 12:45
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thats 12th century ya 2lbi... not inventing
The 12th century mathematician
More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Babylonians and Egyptians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy
05 December 2012, 12:46
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The word "algebra" is named after the Arabic word "al-jabr" from the title of the book [al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala' , (The book of Summary Concerning Calculating by Transposition and Reduction), a book written by the Muslim mathematician, Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī in 820. The word Al-Jabr means "reunion. In fact, many ancient civilizations developed some sort of algebraic methods of solving problems, as far back as the Babylonians, Diophantus of Alexandria and the Indian mathematicians such as Brahmagupta, but Al-Khwarizmi is considered by many to be the "father of algebra" because some of his techniques on solving quadratic equations are still in use today. He was the first to solve equations using general methods. He solved the linear indeterminate equations, quadratic equations, second order indeterminate equations and equations with multiple variable.
05 December 2012, 12:46
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Algebra was invented by the Muslim mathematician Al-Khwarizmi in the book he wrote in 820. Algebra is the Arabic word (aljabr) for "equation", and the word "algorithm" comes from the author's name, Al-Khwarizmi. He is rightly known as "the father of Algebra".
05 December 2012, 12:49
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just because he was born in the persian empire when it included present day iraq.. doesnt make him persian.. 3ayb.. he is arab.. just by the name you can tell.
05 December 2012, 14:26
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logarithms was first publicly propounded in 1614, in a book entitled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, by John Napier, Baron of Merchiston, in Scotland (Joost Bürgi independently discovered logarithms; however, he did not publish his discovery until four years after Napier.) Early resistance to the use of logarithms was muted by Kepler's enthusiastic support and his publication of a clear and impeccable explanation of how they worked.
05 December 2012, 14:27
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Optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians, followed by theories on light and vision developed by ancient Greek and Indian philosophers, and the development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world. The word optics is derived from the Greek term τα ὀπτικά which refers to matters of vision.[1] Optics was significantly reformed by the developments in the medieval Islamic world, such as the beginnings of physical and physiological optics, and then significantly advanced in early modern Europe, where diffractive optics began.
05 December 2012, 14:29
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The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos,[2] but had received no support from most other ancient astronomers.
05 December 2012, 14:31
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Jundishapur surrendered to Islam in 636 AD. The first physicians under Muslim rule were Christians or Jews.[25] One source indicates the first prominent Islamic hospital was founded in Damascus, Syria in around 707 with assistance from Christians.[26] However most agree that the establishment at Baghdad was the most influential. The public hospital in Baghdad was opened during the Abbasid Caliphate of Harun al-Rashid in the 8th century
05 December 2012, 14:31
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good thing you forgot about them mowaten.. because people might laugh at you if you do "remember" and bring them up.
05 December 2012, 14:38
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P.S.
The Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam is credited with identifying the foundations of algebraic geometry and found the general geometric solution of the cubic equation. Another Persian mathematician, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī, found algebraic and numerical solutions to various cases of cubic equations
Again.. just because the persian empire included present day Iraq/levant does not make them persians...
06 December 2012, 12:16
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He is frequently referred to as Ibn al-Haytham, and sometimes as al-Basri (Arabic: البصري), after his birthplace in the city of Basra
06 December 2012, 12:19
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and i agree phil's comment was not worth replying to... but let us attribute things to their correct place.
