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Iran Official: 'The United States Violated Our Airspace With A Drone'

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TEHRAN, Iran -- A prominent Iranian parliament member said Friday that a U.S. drone violated Iran's airspace a week ago, when the Pentagon says it was fired on. The U.S. maintains the pilotless craft was over international waters.

Lawmaker Mohammad Saleh Jokar told state-owned yjc.ir news website that Iranian fighters shot at the U.S. drone because it had entered Iranian airspace.

"Violation of the airspace of Iran was the reason for shooting at the American drone," Mohammad Saleh Jokar was quoted as saying. "This showed Iran has the necessary readiness to defend against any invasion."

The semi-official Fars news agency also suggested that the drone violated Iran's airspace.

Fars carried quotes from a general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as saying Iran would confront any "flying object" that entered its air space. click here to read more