Problem About Aircraft Spy on Iran

President Barack Obama on Monday (12.12.2011), states, Washington has called on Iran to restore U.S. drones who said Tehran was dropped when it was flying in its airspace.

“We asked him to come back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond to it,” Obama said at a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The statement is the first confirmation that delivered Obama administration about the existence of U.S. drones in the hands of Iran. “Regarding the drone is in Iranian territory, I will not comment because the matter a secret intelligence service,” he said.

Some U.S. intelligence officials said the aircraft designed to evade radar spy flights were in the CIA’s mission when it disappeared. Iran on December 4 downed an unmanned U.S. aircraft type RQ-170 for violating the airspace east of the country near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“Electronic war units and air defense we managed to identify and impose a sophisticated spy plane unmanned – RQ-170 – after the plane was breaking the eastern border region,” Fars news agency said, citing military sources.

“The aircraft suffered minor damage. Now the plane is controlled by our troops,” the source said, citing the incident as a violation of the striking area.

RQ-170 Sentinel is a reconnaissance aircraft whose existence was disclosed in 2009 by the media and later confirmed by the U.S. Air Force in 2010.

News of the crash broke the U.S. as tensions rose between Iran and Western countries, especially Britain. The entire diplomatic staff of the Iranian embassy in London, left England on December 2 after being expelled in the aftermath of the invasion of the British Embassy by demonstrators in Tehran. England, who was involved in a confrontation with Iran over its nuclear activities, expressed anger over the raid diplomatic representation in Tehran on Tuesday by the students and the hardline Basij militia in retaliation for Britain’s new sanctions against Iran and the West.