Iran shot down two US navy drones outside its airspace in the Gulf, ILNA news agency quoting a top military commander as saying on Sunday. The head of Guards' air force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said on January 2 that his forces had shot down two drones after they "violated" Iranian territory.
But on Sunday, General Gholam Ali Rashid, the deputy chief of staff of Iran's armed forces, said the unmanned aircraft were shot down outside the airspace of the Islamic republic.
Soon after the initial report from Hajizadeh, Western media quoted US officials as rejecting the statement.
The US navy's Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain, just across Gulf waters from Iran. Forty percent of the world's oil supplies passes through the strait.
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