If it was shot down over their country, when US aircraft had no business there, shouldn’t they be able to keep it? At a minimum, they can reverse engineer the technology in use, but it doesn’t look like they plan to do that either.
It’s doubtful that Iran’s planned lawsuit against the US will produce any real results, except perhaps showing that they are attempting to handle grievances through proper channels — the “right” way.
Lawmaker Parviz Sorouri, who is on the parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, said Monday the extracted information will be used to file a lawsuit against the United States for the “invasion” by the unmanned aircraft. Sorouri also claimed that Iran has the capability to reproduce the drone through reverse engineering, but he didn’t elaborate.
As a sidenote, I love how the US refuses to admit that the drone was shot down — who knows, maybe it was. Regardless, it’s understandable why they wouldn’t admit that Iran got the best of them on this one:
American officials have said that U.S. intelligence assessments indicate that Iran neither shot the drone down, nor used electronic or cybertechnology to force it from the sky. They contend the drone malfunctioned. The officials had spoken anonymously in order to discuss the classified program.
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Iran says it won’t return U.S. drone
Iran says it’s almost done decoding US drone
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