By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELLIran's Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, while disputing the circumstances of the incident. The Guard said it shot down the drone over Iranian airspace, while two U.S. officials told The Associated Press the downing happened over international airspace in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said it shot down the drone on Thursday morning when it entered Iranian airspace near the Kouhmobarak district in southern Iran's Hormozgan province. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency, citing the Guard, identified the drone as an RQ-4 Global Hawk. They did not elaborate on the type of drone shot down, nor the mission it was conducting.

Source: Libya Today June 20, 2019 06:20 UTC