12 Years Ago!!!! They still have it!
US president Barack Obama says his government has requested that Tehran return a RQ-170 Sentinel surveillance drone captured by Iran’s military Reuters
The US has asked Iran to return a surveillance drone downed earlier this month, Barack Obama disclosed on Monday.
Obama was asked about the missing drone during a joint press conference with the Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki to mark the withdrawal of troops from Iraq by the end of the month.
“We have asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said but ended with a smirk, an acknowledgement that Iranian co-operation was highly unlikely.
It is the first time that the US has formally acknowledged that Iran has the drone.
Obama declined to answer a question about whether US national security had been undermined by the loss of the drone to Iran. “With respect to the drone inside of Iran, I’m not going to comment on intelligence matters that are classified,” he said.
Tehran said on Sunday it had reverse engineered the drone in order to extract important technical information about how it is put together.
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