02/24/13: The New York Times reports Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday that they had captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran. General Hamid Sarkheili, a spokesman for the military exercise, said the guards’ electronic warfare unit spotted signals indicating that foreign drones were trying to enter Iranian airspace. General Sarkheili said experts took control of one drone’s navigation system and brought it down near the city of Sirjan. “While probing signals in the area, we spotted foreign and enemy drones which attempted to enter the area of the war game,” Sarkheili said on the state news agency. “We were able to get one enemy drone to land.” General Sarkheili did not say whether the drone was American, and a CIA spokeswoman in Washington declined to comment on the report.

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