Iran Says It Downed Israeli Drone over Nuclear Site

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Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said Sunday it has brought down an Israeli stealth drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the center of the country.

"A spy drone of the Zionist regime (Israel) was brought down by a missile... This stealth drone was trying to approach the Natanz nuclear zone," the corps said in a statement on its official website sepahnews.com.

"This act demonstrates a new adventurism by the Zionist regime... The Revolutionary Guard and the other armed forces reserve the right to respond to this act," the statement added.

An Israeli spokesman told Agence France-Presse in Jerusalem that the military does "not address foreign media reports."

Natanz is Iran's main uranium enrichment site, housing more than 16,000 centrifuges. Around 3,000 more are at the Fordo plant, buried inside a mountain and hard to destroy.

Israel has often threatened to attack Iranian nuclear installations.

Iran and the P5+1 powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany -- reached a six-month interim agreement under which Iran suspended part of its nuclear activities in return for a partial lifting of international sanctions.

In July that deal was extended by four months until November 24 to give the two sides more time to negotiate a final accord aimed at ending 10 years of tensions over Iran's nuclear program.

The sides remain split on how much uranium enrichment Iran should be allowed to carry out.

Washington wants Tehran to slash its program by three-quarters, but Iran wants to expand enrichment ten-fold by 2021, chiefly to produce fuel for its Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Israel, a sworn enemy of Iran, opposes any agreement allowing Tehran to keep part of its uranium enrichment program, saying Iran could use the material to make an atomic bomb.

Iran has consistently denied wanting to make nuclear weapons.

Comments 8
Default-user-icon Army of the Guardian (Guest) 24 August 2014, 16:44

Natanz is smack dab in the middle of Iran god only knows what sensitive landmarks it filmed before they shot it down, for all the rhetoric not impressed by the defenses.

Missing helicopter 24 August 2014, 17:29

Two entities must not exist, Religion based Governments (Iran) and Zionism.

Thumb scorpyonn 24 August 2014, 21:21

Iran is like cancer- you do not cure it-- you eliminate it,

Thumb charlesmartel 25 August 2014, 01:16

to eliminate cancer you use radio therapy... same radiation that is generated by radioactive material .... in other words nuclear material.... they so much want the nuclear bomb.. lets give it to them..... Nuke Iran.......

Default-user-icon Asaf (Guest) 24 August 2014, 21:51

Is every nationalism bad in your mind, or only when it's Jewish nationalism? You obviously support Lebanese and Iranian nationalism. Why then, when it comes to Jewish nationalism, it's wrong?

Thumb charlesmartel 24 August 2014, 19:47

propaganda...that all what is left to a country that is on the verge of bankruptcy...
by the way where is ghadanfar trucmuch with his idiotic comments about the islamic republic of iran..?

Missing VINCENT 24 August 2014, 21:37

For the Middle East to survive, there must be a "selective" interference to wipe off down to the DNA of those who think with their religion instead of cultivating relationships based on honor. The actions you take today are the grounds that you will walk on in the future. Maintaining and fostering worthless causes and false beliefs is a sure recipe to lose power over self control, patience, doubt and the ability to fairly and judicially weight evidence. These idiots, including all the remaining idiots in the region, will suffer greatly by making a habit of maintaining credulous characters and worthless causes. It is up to us to identify and target these scums the same way we do not tolerate unwanted weeds in our gardens.

Thumb scorpyonn 25 August 2014, 06:22

Too bad Obama is weak-- as much as I hated Dick Cheney I wish he was back on control again- he would have blasted Iran and eliminated Isis.