Iran has shot down an unmanned US spy plane over its Fordu nuclear site, a state-run website reported yesterday, a day after it confirmed it was installing a new generation of advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges.
"An unmanned US spy plane flying over the holy city of Qom near the uranium enrichment Fordu site was shot down by the Revolutionary Guards' air defence units," MP Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari was quoted as saying by the Youth Journalists Club, affiliated to Iran's state TV.
The Fordu site, secretly built inside a mountain bunker near Qom, was acknowledged by Iran only after Western intelligence agencies identified it in 2009.
In January Iran announced it had shot down two unmanned western reconnaissance drone aircraft in the Gulf.
Source : The Daily Star
