Spy drone crashes in Iran

8/28/2005 1:00:00 PM GMT

An unmanned “drone” aircraft has crashed after hitting a mountain in central Iranian province of Lorestan, an Interior Ministry official said on Sunday.

Ali-Asghar Ahmadi, the Deputy Minister of the Interior for security affairs said that the plane crashed in the Alashtar Mountains in Lorestan Province.

“We have received a report about an unmanned plane crashing into the mountains in this region”, Ahmadi said, without identifying the origin of the drone or its intended mission.

“We have not yet identified it,” he said.

Officials in the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the Supreme National Security Council couldn’t be reached for comment.

An official in the governor’s office in Lorestan Province, contacted by telephone, said that the Revolutionary Guards units had secured the site of the crash.

Alashtar, the nearest town to the site of the crash, with a population of 70,000, lies 50 kilometres north of the provincial centre Khorram-Abad.

Several drones crashed in Iran during recent months, and some analysts have suggested that the United States might be using them to spy on Iran after U.S. forces employed them in Afghanistan

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