NBC News: "Drone that crashed in Iran last Thursday was on a mission for the CIA, and is now in the hands of Iran's military" Iranian PressTV says that it happened on Dec. 4 : "On Sunday December 4, the Iranian Army's electronic warfare unit downed a RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft after it crossed into Iran's airspace" FOX News quotes experts who say that the "drone's design makes it more of an operational platform, not an intelligence gathering aircraft". "Wall Street Journal":"US officials considered conducting a covert mission inside Iran to retrieve or destroy a stealth drone that crashed late last week, but ultimately concluded such a secret operation wasn't worth the risk of provoking a more explosive clash with Tehran, a US official said.(...) "No one warmed up to the option of recovering it or destroying it because of the potential it could become a larger incident," the US official said. If an assault team entered the country to recover or destroy the drone, the official said, the US "could be accused of an act of war" by the Iranian government." Debka:"...Iran repel the next and most critical stage of the cyber war that was to have been launched on the day the US UAV was brought down. Our exclusive intelligence sources add that that the RQ-170 was the first US drone of this type to enter Iranian skies. Its mission was specific. Iran's success in determining the moment of the unmanned vehicle's entry and its success in transferring command of the drone's <b>...</b>
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