Iranian media on Sunday reported that the nation’s naval forces had warned off a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane from coming into Iran’s airspace over the Sea of Oman.
Per the semi-official Tasnim Information Company, a U.S. Navy EP-3E was about to enter Iran’s airspace over the Sea of Oman when Iranian naval forces “gave the aircraft a warning and blocked its unauthorized entry.”
FILE: An U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II digital spy turborprop airplane from VQ-1 Squadron sits on the tarmac at Ault Subject at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor, Washington. (REUTERS/Anthony P. APB/RCS)
The report didn’t supply extra particulars in regards to the nature of the “warning” however stated the U.S. plane finally stayed away from Iran’s aerial border and returned to the worldwide routes.
FOX Information Digital has reached out to the Division of Protection however didn’t hear again earlier than publication.
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Iran has clashed with the U.S. previously over the difficulty of plane flying in its airspace. In 2019 Iranian forces blasted a U.S. Navy high-altitude drone out of the sky over the Strait of Hormuz by way of surface-to-air missile.
Sunday’s episode comes with Iranian-U.S. relations at an all-time low. Efforts to revive the controversial 2015 nuclear deal have stagnated and Tehran stays ostracized over its lethal crackdown on protesters.
FILE: U.S. Joint Chiefs Chair Military Common Mark Milley speaks with U.S. forces in Syria throughout an unannounced go to, at a U.S. navy base in Northeast Syria, March 4, 2023. (REUTERS/Phil Stewart/File Picture)
Crippling U.S. sanctions have taken goal at Iranian drones, which Washington maintains have been used to focus on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine throughout its struggle with Russia.
Tehran has admitted to sending Russia drones however insists it was earlier than Russian tanks rolled throughout Ukraine’s border in February 2022.
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Final month, the U.S. navy carried out a number of precision airstrikes in Syria, killing eight Iranians, in retaliation for a drone strike Iranian forces carried out on a coalition base that killed one American.