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Iran shows film of captured US drone
Iranian TV has shown the first video footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it downed near the Afghan border.
The film was captioned "RQ170 - advanced US spy plane" and carried on the Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network 1 channel.
The images show Iranian military officials inspecting the aircraft, which appears to be largely undamaged.
US officials have acknowledged the loss of the unmanned aircraft.
Pentagon officials said they were concerned about Iran possibly acquiring information about the technology.
The drone, known as a Sentinel, is the first such loss by the US.
The US has no diplomatic relations with Iran and US affairs in the country are dealt with via the Swiss embassy in Tehran.
Iranian media said the foreign ministry had summoned the Swiss envoy to to express its "strongest protest over the invasion of a US spy drone deep into its airspace".
It said the ministry had asked for an immediate explanation and had demanded compensation from Washington.
Nato has said that an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week when its operators lost control of it.
However, reports in the Iranian media said the drone had been brought down by Iranian forces.
A report in The New York Times on Thursday said the "stealth" drone had been part of a US surveillance programme mapping Iran's suspected nuclear sites.
The US and its allies suspect Iran of secretly trying to build a nuclear weapon - something Tehran strongly denies.
However, a recent report by the UN's nuclear watchdog said Iran had carried out tests "relevant to the development of a nuclear device".
BBC News - Iran shows film of captured US drone
Iranian TV has shown the first video footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it downed near the Afghan border.
The film was captioned "RQ170 - advanced US spy plane" and carried on the Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network 1 channel.
The images show Iranian military officials inspecting the aircraft, which appears to be largely undamaged.
US officials have acknowledged the loss of the unmanned aircraft.
Pentagon officials said they were concerned about Iran possibly acquiring information about the technology.
The drone, known as a Sentinel, is the first such loss by the US.
The US has no diplomatic relations with Iran and US affairs in the country are dealt with via the Swiss embassy in Tehran.
Iranian media said the foreign ministry had summoned the Swiss envoy to to express its "strongest protest over the invasion of a US spy drone deep into its airspace".
It said the ministry had asked for an immediate explanation and had demanded compensation from Washington.
Nato has said that an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week when its operators lost control of it.
However, reports in the Iranian media said the drone had been brought down by Iranian forces.
A report in The New York Times on Thursday said the "stealth" drone had been part of a US surveillance programme mapping Iran's suspected nuclear sites.
The US and its allies suspect Iran of secretly trying to build a nuclear weapon - something Tehran strongly denies.
However, a recent report by the UN's nuclear watchdog said Iran had carried out tests "relevant to the development of a nuclear device".
BBC News - Iran shows film of captured US drone
MAN ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo MAN NICE fuk off American 
Can't wait to give it to the hands of our reverse engineers and share the technology of this windfall with our Russian and Chinese comrades. lol
so the operator didn't think nothing , because he wasn't in a position to do so ... How it could be ? When the beast of Kandahar was hacked ...
