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Subscribe to RSSVideo released by Iran allegedly showing decoded data from the US RQ-170 spy drone that crashed in Iran in December 2011.
Published at 10:17 a.m. ET: TEHRAN -- Iran's state TV has broadcast footage allegedly extracted from the advanced CIA spy drone captured in 2011, the latest in a flurry of moves from Iranian authorities meant to underline the nation's purported military and technological advances.
Iran has long claimed it managed to reverse-engineer the RQ-170 Sentinel, seized in December 2011 after it entered Iranian airspace from the country's eastern border with Afghanistan, and that it is capable of launching its own production line for the unmanned aircraft.
After initially saying only that a drone had been lost near the Afghan-Iran border, American officials eventually confirmed the Sentinel had been monitoring Iran's military and nuclear facilities. Washington asked for it back but Iran refused and instead released photos of Iranian officials studying the aircraft.
The video aired late Wednesday on Iranian TV shows an aerial view of an airport and a city, said to be a U.S. drone base and Kandahar, Afghanistan. The TV also showed images purported to be the Sentinel landing at a base in eastern Iran, but it was unclear if that footage meant to depict the moment of the drone's seizure.
In addition, the TV also showed images of an Iranian helicopter transporting the drone, as well as its disassembled parts being carried on a trailer.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard via EPA, file
Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, right, looks at the US RQ-170 drone which reportedly crashed in eastern Iran near the city of Kashmar on Dec. 4, 2011, displayed at an undisclosed location in Iran.
In another part of the video, the chief of the Revolutionary Guard's airspace division, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said that only after capturing the drone, Iran realized it "belongs to the CIA."
"We were able to definitively access the data of the drone, once we brought it down," said Hajizadeh.
He described the Sentinel's capture as a huge scoop for Iran, saying that at the time, Tehran did not rule out a possible punitive U.S. airstrike over the drone.
Iranian officials have accused the U.S. of stepping up its espionage activities against Iran as part of intensified Western efforts to force Tehran to abandon its uranium enrichment program, a key aspect of its disputed nuclear program. The U.S. and its allies suspect Iran may be trying to develop atomic weapons, a charge Tehran denies.
In an attempt to embarrass Washington, Iran has claimed to have captured several American drones, most recently in December, when Tehran said it seized a Boeing-designed ScanEagle drone — a less sophisticated aircraft — after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf.
U.S. officials said there was no evidence that the latest claims were true.
Also Thursday, the semi-official Fars news agency published photos reportedly depicting a domestic production line of ScanEagle drones. The photos show several drones in a workshop.
Iran has said before that it's making ScanEagle copies and putting them into service, but it has not offered proof of those claims.
At schools, in shops and on the streets of big cities and small towns, daily life plays out in Iran.
Fars also quoted deputy defense minister Mohammad Eslami as saying that Iran has also established a "production line for the drones in foreign countries." He did not elaborate, and it was not clear if he was referring to Syria or Lebanon's Hezbollah group, Iran's top regional allies.
The latest Sentinel footage came as the U.S. tightened sanctions to pressure the Iranian government to limit its nuclear program and restrictions on institutions that Washington says are stifling political dissent and censoring speech.
Among the expanded measures announced Monday by the Treasury Department is a move to deny Iran access to revenue garnered from its oil exports. Under the latest sanctions, Iran would be able to use revenue from its oil sales only in a country that purchased its crude — now mostly big Asian economies such as China and India — which would significantly limit its access to the money.
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Oops! Can I have it back? I find that very funny.
On another Iran related matter...Iran released a Youtube video of a so-called 5th generation domestic built stealth fighter this week. An aviation forum I belong to had a lively thread on the topic. First of all the flight sequence was of a RV "toy" model...not a real craft and then photo's of the aircraft parked in a hanger reveal a poor mock up complete with dummy avionics, a cockpit canopy which has no anchoring and fibreglas side paneling. Nothing these jokers put out can be believed and must obviously be concocted for domestic consumption.
North Korea doesn't care how they get a nuclear weapon into our airspace and that's the problem right there. The other problem is that they already have them. Their video doesn't reveal that it's actually them that delivers' one or several to us.. It describes that; We are the World, We are the Children. Nothing, not one thing is stopping them from placing one on one of their submarines and delivering it to someone who can reach us. They would probably even give it to that entity free of charge. We have serious, serious problems in the mist. If even one bomb took down New York the financial system would immediately collapse. We wouldn't even be able to buy gas. The Passiveness of our Government and our cowardly men is disqusting and those 2 things combined Is and Will be our demise and our Destruction. Don't think even for 1 second that China of which we owe trillions (yes each of us owe them about $95,000.00) are just waiting, biding their time for when this happens so they can default us, strike us with overwhelming ground forces and take from us what we Legitimately Owe them at the hand of our own Passive and Cowardly Government.
China could arm and mobilize half of their men and offer them the Promised land as payment. That alone would be the largest army on earth, overwhelming the united States, United Nations, Japan and South Korea Combined. We as a whole are very vulnerable and Militarily way understaffed even if we armed every American Male in every part of the world.
Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea, Russia and China are all waiting Patiently. They have been doing these types of war strategies for 1000's of years. Haven't any of you realized that there are a billion Chinese and Russian Sks/ Ak47's out there. We have only been around for a couple hundred years so, You'd better be taking notes and paying close, in your face with a machete close attention people.
Stop worrying about remote controlled toys and start worrying about the Reality, which is far far from the Dreamworld the majority of you live in.
Iran, North Korea, I can see the confusion. They both try to weave a reality distortion field not just for the world and their people, but for their own brain hoping to banish the harsh reality of their irrelevance to the future of humanity and their lacking of courage to contribute to it.
Everything you see here is simply a diversion to keep our attention from that actual reality.
@Blackbird --- do you have a link to the youtube video? I can't find it.
You may recall that in 2001 an American P-3 was forced to land in China. Unfortunately the crew failed to destroy the sensitive equipment. China eventually returned the plane in pieces after they examined it. These drones should be equipped with self destruct charges too.
Our first and last mistake is thinking that it is us that allows or disallows them to do Anything. It is actually Them that allow us to do everything. If you will notice, the moment China speaks, We Shut Our Mouths. You wonder why we have so many Nuclear Weapons. It's not because we are of any great power. It's that we are holding ourselves and our land for the ransom of the ability for anyone and every living thing to be able to breath on earth. We are not the oppressers we are the oppressed and we are greatly outnumbered. Yet our own powers that be wish to disarm us, Why?.... Because they work for them and we are all of their Slaves....
How is your novel progressing chosen-7351967? You have a vivid imagination to say the least. Yes, there is evil out there and we must remain vigilant. But, the control rests not with other governments, it rests with the Cabal of Wealthy Individuals and Corporations. They set the scenarios by which Governments fail and others succeed or remain only to foster fear, much like you have chosen-7351967.
But, the main point I want to make is not that; it is the fact that ignorant Americans blame a president for certain policy calls that they think are weak or dumb. I believe once a President comes to office, the first day he is able to see the full Intel of World situations that are explosive. They are such that if it were known to the public it would cause mass hysteria. This is why there is so much withheld from us, much like we withhold terrifying things from children. It ain't always black and white folks we live in a very gray world today.
Your point is well taken, but changes nothing never the less..
It's a Cricket Symphony and it's about time...
"Chosen" - as in "Korean"? What should we do, just surrender and let the Commies and rag-heads take over? Kim Jung Un is mentally defective. He lives in a fantasy world, with delusions of
grandeuradequacy. And the middle-eastern guru's are too busy fighting among themselves to mount any kind of cooperative assault. We can take out their "missiles" long before they reach American soil, and they wouldn't want the retaliation that would occur.Iran, Cuba, and North Korea are the last three nations left on earth without a private central bank. Two of those nations have nuclear weapons. We're currently picking a fight with the third (do you still wonder why?), who is, apparently for good reason, looking to acquire a bomb of its own...
As of 2000, there were seven nations on the above list. The four others were Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan.
Hmm...
What happened to to the article where biden and the white house said " that its not to late to talk to iran"
It disappeared as fast as Iran's Ayatollah told biden to pound sand on any talks and threatens to retaliate if pressured by the U.S.
Why is msnbc censoring this, just to protect the chosen one.
Whoa!
What really worries me is the looming tinfoil shortage.
Get your hats, fellas. Keep 'em safe.
Chris...here is YouTube link. Wish I could cut & paste but have to completely spell it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=trk5ocygA04
I tried link but won't work. Just insert Iranian stealth fighter in YouTube search.
Hope you can activate it. Loads of laughs :-)
Cheers,
Stu
You're really stretching for it here Chosen. You're making comparisons with 1000 year old war strategies. Just a little bit has changed since then. You mention military size and amount of small arms held by China, neither of which make very much of a difference. Pay more attention to military spending as ours dwarfs any and all of the countries you say are waiting to take us over. That's what makes the real difference.
Well, is this what will fly over U.S. cities and towns soon? Who knows. I wonder why it is black and white?
There is absolutely nothing visible on that footage that couldn't be faked by the Iranians. Grainy indistinct black and white footage is a good indication. The RQ-170 allegedly takes clear and sharp images from thousands of feet up in the air, but what the Iranians are trying to pass off may as well be coming from a cell phone strapped to the landing gear of a Cessna!
Maybe they will show us some Bin Laden footage, since our govenment won't.
What Bin Laden footage would you like to see that is being kept from you?
Only Bin laden footage I have seen was in a movie, and I'm not talking about the footage of him living or walking witha cane in the mountains back in the 80's. We all know he wasn't living there when we had stealth drones.
Hummmmmmmmm .... Perhaps when the first foreign ScanEagle" is over Washington DC, ........... or attacking the Capitol we will realize how foolhardy & dangerous to our "national welfare" vs "national security" or alleged "national interest" this type of escalation really is ... to our "long term" internal welfare.
We are on top now and able to play top dog... and shove it to everyone .... that is why we are opposed to other nations developing superior weaponry & nuclear power ... we are using our power very unwisely in this regard .... and need to steep back, and consider what is in the long term interest of the people of the United States ... not the short term interest of others.
Lets turn back to the American ideals that made us great .... not the new America .... That is the bully of the world ...
As their brains work in reverse order like their writings, they must have assembled some wrong one!
To help the Iraians to reverse engineer, bomb their Ayotollah's place!
One can't imagine the fantasies of these tenth century Islamic nuts, Shiites.
Didn't you hear? We dumped his body into the ocean. Of course, this was just before we could officially confirm that this was indeed the body of the most hunted man in the world, but there is no conspiracy.
j70141 in Colorado,
"We dumped his body into the ocean. Of course, this was just before we could officially confirm that this was ndeed the body of the most hunted man in the world, but there is no conspiracy."
You should read Mark Owen's book No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL. He was a member of SEAL team 6 that killed bin Laden and was in the room with bin Laden after he was killed, and he confirms that it was in fact bin Laden. They also took numerous photographs and DNA samples. His book also makes it clear that the author was no big fan of President Obama, either, so it isn't likely he was any part of a government conspiracy.
ScanEagles are commercially available drones that are also used by civilians in areas such as oil prospecting and monitoring fisheries. Iran could buy one on the open market through one of its proxies --- such as Venezuela (which is not manufacturing an Iranian reverse-engineered version of the ScanEagle/SeaScan.) This is not some huge state secret.
How embarrassing... we have been shown to be liars again and again...
Iran claims to be developing nuclear power for purpose of energy, while sitting on some of the largest reserves known, and you are calling our leaders liars? (I think that they are, too, but the question remains. )
Iranians have the right to both the oil and nuclear energy. Who made you the f... judge in this matter? Mind your own f... business and people will have respect for you. I served in Europe during the height of Cold War and I saw how our warmongering military was repeatedly provoking Russia by doing all sorts of illegal stunts. They are now doing the same with Iran, trying to stir up another stupid war, just like the last few wars of aggression we started.
Do you trust these mad people acting brave and imagining in Islamic fantasy deserts?
These brave Shiites mullahs and their soldiers could not win against Saddam even after decade of war.
They sent even 14 years for Allah's battle with Saddam.
For NATO forces it took less than two months to make Saddam flee in 1991 Iraqi war.
Before 1991 Iraqi war, Saddam and his gangs claims were reaching sky!
Yes, Jonathan... we, the Americans, were helping Saddam in his war with Iran, too. It is all about oil - their oil.
Yes Max, and the Russians and the Chinese were helping Iran in said war. What is your point? You think they were totally altruistic in their actions? I seriously doubt it.
So Max.. are you the only one worthy of having an opinion?
Am I the only one that thinks the video is crappy quality? My phone has better video quality than that.
@Obvious Man
Are you saying that our defense contractors are not upto the task?
What you are seeing is the testing of the camera during the rollout to takeoff and immediately after takeoff. The pilot is just making sure that the cameras move smoothly and can zoom properly. The RQ-170 never made it to its target so there is no video of the nuclear facilities. The landing may be a previous landing because the landing in Iran was pretty hard --- hard enough to damage the left main landing gear and scrape the left wingtip.
I'm wondering why we would store the video in the drone's memory. These images are sent real-time back to the pilot/controller. Wouldn't they record them there? Something seems fishy.
And what a lot of the Obama haters fail to, or just don't want to realize is that drone that landed there was landed there on purpose. Filled with all kinds of top secret things that will work until the Iranians try to use it. and then it won't work. Think of all the lost time and money they will spend on reverse engineering it.
The actualy technology of that drone is old, very old technology, and is available on the internet.The software maybe a different matter, but that may have been fixed for a false flag also. A little false information to your enemy's can and does go a long ways in messing with their minds. But I guess the haters can always call for Obama's impeachment over this, right?
That drone went down far too easy and landed intact. I'm thinking it was a Trojan Horse. All kinds of code could have been embedded in it's operating system that would wreak havoc on the Iranian systems when they tried to decipher it.
SallyAnn-4595694 .. If you can provide a reliable source for claim please it would be appropriate.
As someone who has supported the president on most issues I resent your political suggestion.
As a American that believes in the bill of rights civil protections afforded under the constitution, and a bright line that restrains specific acts by our government against its citizens, I will not support any policy by any executive branch officer, regardless of political affiliation, that involves the execution or assassination of any American, without the benefits afforded him by law.
I have lived through the possible impeachment of one president, Richard Nixon, accused of far lesser crimes than the one before us now ... and watched him resign, in disgrace ..
Sadly, If Our President has participated in acts that are in violation of the Constitution of the United States, he should face impeachment hearings .... regardless of political affiliations. for he is misusing the powers that the American citizens have intrusted in him.
We, Allegedly are a Republic of laws, and our leaders are not kings or dictators, who can order the death of their citizens on their whim ... or simply take the law into their hands...
Freedoms are not lost by giant leaps ..but by repeated "baby steps" .. the bright line has been crossed ... it's time that this erosion ends ..
@Sally Ann, @Boto,
The story told by the Iranians is pretty plausible. They knew that stealth drones were coming in from Pakistan and Afghanistan because there were plenty of news stories. Even though they could not detect the drones with radar, they could visually see contrails when the weather was right. They had previously intercepted the datalink and partially decoded some of it. They determined the location in memory of the emergency return base with its coordinates. They changed the coordinates to one of their own bases. At the time they did not know how to change the characteristics of the landing field, so they had to pick one of their airfields that was oriented in the same direction as the real emergency landing base. The altitude of the base also had to be the same. Unfortunately the closest match was about 30 feet lower in altitude.
So the Iranians set up mobile bagpipe jammers along their border. As soon as the drone was signted by its contrails they started the jamming. The drone was programmed that if it lost its datalink it was to immediately go to its emergency base. It did, but it was now an Iranian base. And the 30 foot altitude discrepancy caused the drone to flare out 30 feet above the ground and caused a very hard landing. But the drone was rugged enough that it sustained only a little damage to the landing gear and a scraped wing tip.
The RQ-170 was as modern a drone as we have in service. The overall design, the datalink methodology, and even the radar absorbing coatings on the drone were quite secret and very far from "very old technology." The CIA had rated this sort of takeover of a drone as "<1%" saying that the Iranians were "not smart enough" to decrypt the datalink in real time. Unfortunately the CIA was only 1% correct.
It was either a Trojan horse, or the flick is total BS on the part of the rag-heads. It looks like the bird came in low and slow, as if it is just intentionally being landed.
It was intentionally landed, and was being used for a false flag operation.
Chris, you are 1/2 way correct, the Iranians could see the contrails, but they could not decode any of the drones. Some of the drones did aquire the codes from the Iranians, and used that in return, so they could collect the false flag drone. And the drone was old technology. We maybe still using that technology right now, but not all drones are the same. The new technology is better than what the Iranians got.
And they got what the US wanted them to get. And I would like to see the excuses on their faces when nothing works like they think it should. I don't sell the Iranians short, but don't sell our wizards short either.
Iran: "shhh shhh shhh, its the Americans... see what they say... President Amianutjob... how are you today"
US:" great, great, having a wonderful day... ummm say, that drone you seemed to obtianed recently, well that was ours... do you kind sir's think we could, ummm get that back from you? it did cost us a lot of $$ and you know we are having trouble as it is with our budget... "
Iran: "PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT! ya right!" (sounds of roaring laughter in the back ground)
can not wait to see the U.S. response when other country's start flying their drones over our territory!
Won't happen. There is a reason the US isn't afraid to fly drones over Iran, Pakistan, etc. The US is not worried about getting them shot down or in many cases, not even worried about them being found to be there. This was a rare mishap. Anyone trying to fly a drone over the US would have it shot down immediately.
The story is not entirely clear but supposedly Iran was able to override US - CIA control and land the thing with little damage. It would not be that hard for any nation to produce a copy of that drone, but the military satellite network that is used to fly these things anywhere in the world? That would be hard. FYI. A drone does not have to carry a pilot so they can be made very small, discovering and shooting down, not so easy. If all you are doing is carrying a camera they can be very small. Could you control one via the internet? The coverage would be spotty but I think that would be possible in urban areas.
@wje37fswcm,
"... but the military satellite network that is used to fly these things anywhere in the world? That would be hard." Sorry, Bucko, but you are wrong. The GPS system the military uses is the same one that civilians use and extremely accurate uits are easily commercially available. Surveyors, for one, use the very accurate varieties. And if the US tried turning off the GPS satellites, there are also other countries' systems. The Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), the European Union Galileo positioning system, Chinese Compass navigation system, and Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System are all good alternatives.
And if you have a decent GPS (not the kind that you put on your dashboard, you will find that it can correct directly to your computer and you can input/output all kinds of guidance data. The data stream supplied by a commercial hiker GPS would be completely sufficient to guise North Korea's missile or Iranian drones. The programming would be at about high school level or below.
They will never get close to "our territory". They will be evaporated 100 miles or so offshore. We don't throw rocks at them.
As an ex-military veteran I can tell you right now that if the pictures are what they are claiming to have found, it's not an American drone. Look very closely; this is propaganda by a desperate regime. Not real.
we admit it.....we asked for it back.....
I agree with you completely. I watched a lot of UAV feeds working ISR in Baghdad in 2006-2007 and the footage looks like its from a smaller, less sophisticated UAV like a Shadow or Hunter. The altitude of the footage alone tells me that it isn't commensurate for the task performed. For the life of me, I don't know why they don't use a more appropriate platform for this task like the Global Hawk that has a higher service ceiling and does not store any footage on-board.
Yep. The Iranians follow the principle that "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance you can always baffle them with bull$#!t.
If Iran has the technological capability to reverse engineer a sophisticated hi-tech RQ-170 US drones, why do they still posses obsolete cold war weapons as part of their military arsenal???
It's like driving a Ford Pinto & with On-Star integrated GPS!
Blah blah blah!!! Ahmadinejad is a lot like miniature Kim Jong Un...grandstand in front of your people while the rest of the world laughs!!!!!!!!!
Amen. They are likely just grandstanding to impress the poor, ignorant people of their countries to make themselves look normal. Kim Jong Un is a retardo.
Where's James bond when you need him? A good martini, beautiful woman and he would have wrapped this up already!
Gotta love them drones!, Best thing since slice bread
Iran reminds me of that lonely woman in her forties who still frequents bars looking for attention. You know, the one no men looks at anymore!
Iran is so desperate to be considered a "big player" in the middle east, that they will say & publicize anything for attention!!!!!!
North Korea has been a good role model.
Way to go Obama administration!!! ...now through a bit of reverse engineering, Iran will be sending their own drones over Israel........or is this what you wanted?
You have got to be kidding, right.
@HopeisGone. YES, the Obama administration, well, the military did, not Obama personally, did a very good job at planting a false flag operation on the Iranians lap. Even hopeisgone believes it's the real thing. They can, and the US hopes they do the reverse engineering, and boy oh boy will those camel jockeys be surprised when they try to fly it.
So glad you give praise to the President for a well done job. President Bush also did a well done job when the Chinese got that airplane, after the nose cone was jettsioned at sea. All that info on the computer was false.
The Chinese even took the airplane a part to see what was what. And yes, the US did get the plane back, not that it mattered. The Chinese got the false info, that is what counted.
So both Presidents are genius's for giving the OK for the false flags. Don't you agree HopeisGone?
Sally; you are indeed crazy. No one planted anything.
RQ170 sentinel, is an anomaly, it can't even fly without advanced avionics, you cant FAKE this. It was the real deal and we got caught with our pants down, end of story.
The Chinese also gained a ton of information de-engineering our spy plane, which again was also not a fake.
Please come back to reality and realize the USA does screw up.
This was a treasure trove of info for IRAN, and definitely advanced their capability by capturing and bringing down, LANDING the drone by computer hacking it.
IRAN has a lot of capability, and they should not be taken lightly. Having video of the US BASE is so embarrassing. IT's equivalent to capturing a B2 bomber or SR-71, no different.
Now they are rubbing it into the USA face. Again, monumental failure of the Americans to not protect their super top secret drone from being hijacked.
Heads are definitely rolling over this.
@Shaun, no heads are going to be rolling over this. It maybe given sound bites so the Iranians believe it was a real treasure trove. But it was all a false flag operation, and it's still working.
I do agree, Iran has a lot of capability, but our capability is a lot better, and you shouldn't take our govt lightly either. And no, it's not embarrassing at all. Expect for people who refuse to believe in what really happened.
Decades ago 50% of the Iranian population was under 18 and educated. Thus, I concluded that the youth would not tolerate the shenanigans that are going on. But Iran is now a theocracy run by the equivalent of a pope. It is a mock Democracy because the President is only good for stirring up stress within the Mideast.
So what if they get a couple of Nuclear bombs and the missile power to reach Israel. Their government would know that their power would be ended. We're capable of dropping the bombs where the government heads live and work. However many civilians would die but it would be the fault of their government.
The US and others plays a wicked role also. To see Iran as a threat is to the benefit of the Defense industry and other sectors of the government.
It is all just a card game. Call their bluff! I would call Iran on their threats and clearly communicate the personal consequences those in power would incur.
Never acknowledge bullies, but let them know you have a bat that will put them away.
Answer me this: What gives us the right to fly aircraft into another country's airspace? Could you imagine what would happen if a hostile nation flew military or spy aircraft into our airspace uninvited?
This attitude that we are allowed to play by a different set of rules than the rest of the world is the height of hypocrisy. If we are not careful, it will be our downfall!
How do we always seem to bungle things so well? It's like the keystone cops. Funny if it weren't for the billions we lose and the research given away.
I would like to see the reaction here if Iran sent a drone over the USA. Not very well I would guess. There is something inherently cowardly with the 'you can dish it out but you can't take it' mentality.
Has someone verified that they aren't showing stolen Call Of Duty footage?
That's the worst subtitling I've ever experienced. I didn't understand a word of it.
The whole scenario was very suspicious. Maybe the administration sent them a drone as an "accident" since they can't do it directly. Some footage of the airbase layout was included just as a bonus. "Here. We can't sell you the technology for our drones, but secretly we like you, the Muslim Brotherhood, et al., and all you stand for. So what we'll do is we'll 'accidentally' crash one inside your borders. No, it'll be fine, we'll 'crash' it in one piece. No one will be the wiser or suspect anything. See you @ the next Ramadan observance here at the WH"
The US- having declared war on its own citizens that disagree with the WH's and Pentagon's extremism- will likely start killing more people all over the world with even greater frequency. What will Americans do about this terrorism? Being rather mentally very lazy and increasingly cowardly, most will do nothing.
If it is a true CIA video, the Iranians responsible for releasing it will probably wind up dead soon.
If the video is alleged, than the captured drone is only allegedly in Iranian custody - but if that is the case, than why do I see what look like Iranians milling around what looks an awful lot like an RQ-170 stealth drone ? I'm confused.
The RQ170 in the picture doesn't look very "crashed". Did we land it or did the Iranians hack into its control feed and just fly it there themselves?
Iran you don't have to shoot down our drones, just wait for Obama or someone from his administration to release information or you could just hack into our systems, because Obama won't do a thing about it.
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