The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said it had conducted tests aimed at bringing down a “hypothetical” foreign surveillance drone during a military exercise, the official Fars news agency said late Saturday, and did not actually shoot down or capture a foreign drone. The Islamic Republic News Agency, another official news agency, also reported on the exercise, but omitted the word hypothetical, giving the impression that a real drone had been downed. Other official Iranian media outlets later referred to the downing of a “hypothetical” aircraft after the initial erroneous accounts.
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