Vraag: Is het een goede zaak dat de VS Iran hard aanpakt als Iran de soevereiniteit van Irak aantast?quote:U.S.: We shot down Iranian drone over Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. fighter jets in Iraq have shot down an unmanned Iranian spy drone aircraft, the U.S. military said Monday.
The Iranian aircraft had been flying in Iraqi airspace for 70 minutes before being shot down 60 miles northeast of Baghdad last month, the military said.
"This was not an accident on the part of the Iranians," the U.S. military said in a statement. "The [drone] was in Iraqi airspace for nearly one hour and 10 minutes and well inside Iraqi territory before it was engaged."
Two F-16 fighter jets followed the drone for about an hour before shooting it down, a Pentagon official said.
The drone had no weapons and was strictly a spy aircraft, the official told CNN.
The U.S. military has taken ownership of the drone, which the Pentagon official said is in "pretty good shape."
Iraq's national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, declined to comment on the allegation and most major state-run media outlets in Iran did not carry news of any incident involving an Iranian drone.
The Bush administration regularly accused Iran of meddling in Iraq and arming fighters, and in 2002 President George W. Bush put Iran in his "axis of evil."
Since President Barack Obama took office he has appeared more conciliatory towards Iran although the country continues to cause U.S. concern over its nuclear ambitions and its role in Iraq.
En dit een Iraanse dronequote:Op maandag 16 maart 2009 19:58 schreef admiraal_anaal het volgende:
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Dit is dus een "drone" voor de mensen die het niet weten
lol, heeft iran die dingen? dacht dat die op het plaatje zwaar high tech warenquote:Op maandag 16 maart 2009 19:58 schreef admiraal_anaal het volgende:
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Dit is dus een "drone" voor de mensen die het niet weten
bronquote:Iran Says It Has Built Unmanned Aircraft
Iran says it has built unmanned surveillance aircraft with a range of more than 600 miles
By ALI AKBAR
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran
Iran has built an unmanned surveillance aircraft with a range of more than 600 miles — enough to reach Israel — a top defense official said in remarks published Wednesday.
Deputy Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said he could not provide more details, only saying the development of the unmanned aircraft, or drone, was an "important achievement." His remarks were published Wednesday in the government-owned newspaper, Iran, and by the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Iran announced two years ago it had built an unmanned aircraft, but Vahidi's comments were the first by a top official revealing its range. His claims could not be independently confirmed.
Wednesday's reports follow this week's announcement that Iran has restructured its military in an effort to improve its air defense capabilities.
The move was widely seen as part of a broader military build up by Tehran, which is concerned about the U.S. military's presence in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan and Israeli threats to target its nuclear facilities.
Iran has taken Israeli threats to strike its nuclear sites seriously and has said Israel would be subject to Iran's "devastating retaliation" if it attacks.
The first word of the drone came in 2007, when the then-commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, said the unmanned device was designed to take photos of and gather information about enemy positions.
Iran also is seeking to develop a drone with attack capabilities.
In December, air force commander Gen. Hasan Shah Safi said Iranian experts had designed an unmanned aircraft with radar-evading devices that would be able to attack an enemy target and avoid detection. He said the military was working on building a prototype of the craft. He did not elaborate on what sort of weaponry the craft would be fitted with.
Since 2005, Tehran has accused the United States of flying surveillance drones over Iran's airspace to spy on its nuclear and military facilities.
Iran says it is fighting an intelligence battle with the United States and Israel, which accuse Tehran of seeking to build nuclear weapons. Iran has denied the charges, saying its nuclear program is solely geared toward generating electricity.
Iran launched an arms development program during its ruinous 1980-88 war with neighboring Iraq to compensate for a U.S. arms embargo. Since 1992, Iran says it has produced its own jet fighters, torpedoes, radar-avoiding missiles, tanks and armored carriers.
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Kijk, jij snapt het.quote:Op maandag 16 maart 2009 20:04 schreef zbbrox het volgende:
Leugens om uiteindelijk natuurlijk een halfbakken excuus te hebben om Iran ook binnen te vallen.
Er zijn volgens de welbekende internet-encyclopedie 35 landen met UAV's.quote:Op maandag 16 maart 2009 20:07 schreef viezerdt het volgende:
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lol, heeft iran die dingen? dacht dat die op het plaatje zwaar high tech waren
quote:What is Iran’s involvement in Iraq?
Enormous controversy swirls around this issue, and much of the evidence the United States cites as proof of Iranian involvement remains secret and in some cases is disputed by the Iraqi government, too. This has created an uncomfortable analogy to the period before the Iraq invasion, when secret intelligence ultimately discredited pushed the United States toward war.
Nonetheless, the United States alleges Iran is involved in Iraq on a number of fronts:
Military. The Quds Force, a special operations wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, is accused by U.S. officials of furnishing Shiite militias (USA Today) with explosively formed penetrators (EFPs), or roadside bombs, as well as rocket-propelled grenades and Katyusha rockets. Specifically, the United States alleges that it supports, trains, and finances militias like the Badr Brigade, the armed wing of one of Iraq’s most religious Shiite parties whose base is in southern Iraq. “The Quds Force is to the Shiite militias as al-Qaeda in Iraq is to the Sunni insurgent groups,” writes Rick Francona, a retired military intelligence official and former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, on MSNBC.com. Some experts estimate as many as thirty-thousand Iranian operatives may be in Iraq. In October 2007 the U.S. State Department designated the Revolutionary Guard and the Quds Force supporters of terrorism, and imposed sweeping economic sanctions on both.
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quote:Op maandag 16 maart 2009 20:06 schreef Sam_Raimi het volgende:
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En dit een Iraanse drone [ afbeelding ]
Lijkt mij eerder een geval van dat doen wat je tegenstander bij jou al jaren doet.quote:Since 2005, Tehran has accused the United States of flying surveillance drones over Iran's airspace to spy on its nuclear and military facilities.
quote:Op maandag 16 maart 2009 20:06 schreef Sam_Raimi het volgende:
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Alsof Irak iets te zeggen heeft.quote:Op maandag 16 maart 2009 21:51 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
De terughoudendheid van Irak is ook wel opvallend![]()
Maar neem aan dat zij hier toch ook mee akkoord zijn gegaan of anders nu wel hadden gezegd: DIT KANNIE!
Of zouden ze nog niet zover zijn?
Maar dat is een hele grote Amerikaanse.quote:Op maandag 16 maart 2009 19:58 schreef admiraal_anaal het volgende:
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Dit is dus een "drone" voor de mensen die het niet weten
Iran staat te trappelen Irak in te lijven op het moment dat de Amerikanen opkrassen. De VS hebben Iran een geweldige dienst bewezen door aartsvijand Saddam af te zetten, dat hadden ze zelf nooit voor elkaar gekregen.quote:Op maandag 16 maart 2009 19:53 schreef Bradley33 het volgende:
(Maandag 16 maart 2009)
CNN.com - http://edition.cnn.com/20(...)iran.iraq/index.html
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Vraag: Is het een goede zaak dat de VS Iran hard aanpakt als Iran de soevereiniteit van Irak aantast?
quote:Op dinsdag 17 maart 2009 10:29 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Iran staat te trappelen Irak in te lijven op het moment dat de Amerikanen opkrassen. De VS hebben Iran een geweldige dienst bewezen door aartsvijand Saddam af te zetten, dat hadden ze zelf nooit voor elkaar gekregen.
Zo simpel is het niet. Als Iran dat gaat proberen dan wordt Irak weer één nationalistische staat, zetten ze zich keihard af tegen Iran en zijn alle binnenlandse problemen echt over.quote:Op dinsdag 17 maart 2009 10:29 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Iran staat te trappelen Irak in te lijven op het moment dat de Amerikanen opkrassen. De VS hebben Iran een geweldige dienst bewezen door aartsvijand Saddam af te zetten, dat hadden ze zelf nooit voor elkaar gekregen.
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