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NEWS > U.S.A. > U.S. ADMITS SHARING DRONE TECHNOLOGY WITH IRAN
U.S. ADMITS SHARING DRONE TECHNOLOGY WITH IRAN
December 10 2011
Washington, D.C. – The ins and outs of international conflict and diplomacy are traditionally so complex, so labyrinthine that even the most adept conspiratorial imagination would likely never be able to figure it out. From the time that countries were founded, schemes and scams have fueled policy, more often than not ending up with bitter enemies working together while still fighting.
That, it appears, is the case with the United States and Iran.
Enemies for decades, the two nations have reached a new level of tension in recent years for a variety of reasons, most notably of course the pursuit of nuclear weapons by Iran. So intense has the conflict become that the talk of war is pretty much a standard part of the conversation whenever the two nations are involved. That, though, has not meant that they don’t actually work together in some capacity including, it appears, in the sharing of high tech weaponry. Specifically, the United
States has now admitted that Iran is in possession of a high tech drone craft, a part of a complex intelligence sharing initiative with Iran that was recently revealed, to much embarrassment for both sides.
“We did have a UAV go missing, but when it comes to sensitive reconnaissance missions, we call them sensitive for a reason. We have high confidence that the aircraft shown on Iranian television is in fact the missing drone,” said a Pentagon spokesperson.
The RQ-170 unmanned drone was shown in a video throughout Iran. It’s not clear if the exposure of the working relationship between the two nations will endanger future cooperation.
Reports have varied as to whether the drone was shot down, taken down via computer, or simply landed by American operators as a part of the ongoing partnership.
It is not believed that possession of the drone will help facilitate advances in the nuclear weapons program as it has nothing to do with it at all really. The drone is gas powered, not nuclear.
“Normally having this type of technology in enemy, or at least opponent’s hands, would not be a good thing but there has to be a grand plan here. I doubt very much that it is something like Fast and Furious where they are trying to track the drones to users because they know exactly where Iran is, but there has to be a larger plan in play here,” said Scrape TV International Conflict analyst Mario Martinez. “It could be that this is an older drone, perhaps they are trying to flood them with archaic technology in hopes of fooling them, or perhaps they really are trying to advance the Iranian drone program.”
High ranking officials of the Revolutionary Guard were present in the video, suggesting they at least believed the drone was of real value.
“We likely won’t ever know the real truth, but this information sharing could well be the reason the U.S. hasn’t attacked, or allowed Israel to attack. Heck, this could even be a part of a plan to get rid of Israel by the U.S. and make it look like it was Iran. That would be a quick end to the whole conflict in the Middle East,” continued Martinez. “That scenario may be unlikely but you never know. Less likely things have happened in the past so it could be. I’m sure Israel won’t like it one way or the other, but even more so if the U.S. is working against them. That would turn out badly.”
Iran has already started work on reverse engineering the drone, even going so far as to build a fleet of cardboard replicas.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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