{"id":39733,"date":"2026-05-31T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/iran-says-it-shot-down-a-us-military-drone-over-its-territorial-waters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:50:59","slug":"iran-says-it-shot-down-a-us-military-drone-over-its-territorial-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/iran-says-it-shot-down-a-us-military-drone-over-its-territorial-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it shot down a US military drone over its territorial waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_2d8c1c4366a185624481c7f726a9a6d9.png\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Iran has announced that it has shot down an armed US military MQ-1 Predator drone over its territorial waters, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement quoted by state news agency IRNA that the unmanned aerial vehicle entered Iranian airspace in what it described as a &#8220;hostile operation&#8221; in the early hours of the day. today.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the drone was detected and shot down by Iran&#8217;s advanced air defense missile systems after crossing into the country&#8217;s territorial waters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn aggressive MQ-1 drone belonging to the US military, which entered Iranian airspace over territorial waters to carry out a hostile operation, was identified and destroyed by modern IRGC air defense missiles in this morning,&#8221; the IRGC said.<\/p>\n<p>From there they warned that Iran will respond decisively to any act of aggression.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has announced that it has shot down an armed US military MQ-1 Predator drone over its territorial waters, Anadolu reports. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement quoted by state news agency IRNA that the unmanned aerial vehicle entered Iranian airspace in what it described as a &#8220;hostile operation&#8221; in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-39733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":16,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39735,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39733\/revisions\/39735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}