IRAN'S state TV says the country's Revolutionary Guard has captured a US drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf.
The report on Tuesday quoted the navy chief, General Ali Fadavi, as saying Iranian forces caught the "intruding" drone, which had apparently taken off from a US aircraft carrier.
Fadavi said the unmanned ScanEagle aircraft was in Iran's possession.
"The US 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 defence 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 or say when the incident happened.
The US Navy's 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, said it was "looking into" the Iranian claims.
If true, the seizure of the drone would be the third reported incident involving Iran and US drones in the past two years.
Al-Alam, the Iranian state TV's Arabic-language channel, showed two Guard commanders examining what appeared to be an intact ScanEagle drone.
It was not immediately clear if that was the same drone Iran claimed to have captured.
In the footage, the two men then point to a huge map of the Persian Gulf in the background, showing the drone's alleged path of entry into Iranian airspace.
"We shall trample on the US," was printed over the map, next to the Guard's coat-of-arms.
Last month, Iran claimed that a US drone had violated its airspace.
The Pentagon said the unmanned aircraft came under fire - at least twice, but was not hit - and that the Predator was over international waters.
The November 1 shooting in the Gulf was unprecedented, and further escalated tensions between the United States and Iran, which is under international sanctions over its suspected nuclear program.
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