by CBNews.comTEHRAN Iran's state TV said Tuesday that the country's Revolutionary Guard has captured a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf.The report quotes the Guard's navy chief, Gen. Ali Fadavi, as saying the Iranian forces caught the "intruding" drone, which had apparently taken off from a U.S. aircraft carrier.Fadavi said the unmanned ScanEagle aircraft was now in Iran's possession."The U.S. drone, which was conducting a reconnaissance flight and gathering data over the Persian Gulf in the past few days, was captured by the Guard's navy air defense unit as soon as it entered Iranian airspace," Fadavi said. "Such drones usually take off from large warships."He didn't provide any further details, and didn't say when the claimed incident happened. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain.Iran says U.S. drone violated airspaceU.S. disputes Iran's claims about crashed droneIran appeals to U.N. on downed drone, calls surveillance "act of provocation"A Tuesday report from Iran's Fars news agency describes the ScanEagle as "a small, low-cost, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing."If true, the seizure of the drone would be the third reported incident involving Iran and U.S. drones in the past two years.Last month, Iran claimed a U.S. drone had violated its airspace. Pentagon said the unmanned aircraft came under fire at least twice but was not hit, and that the Predator was over international waters.The Nov. 1 shooting in the Gulf was unprecedented, and further escalated tensions between the United States and Iran, which is under international sanctions over its suspect nuclear program. Tehran denies it is pursuing a nuclear weapon and insists its program is for peaceful purposes only.


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