Well geography is playing a part in the latest disagreement between the U.S. and Iran. These two countries are not friendly, and Iran claims it recently shut down the U.S. drone, an unmanned aircraft used by the military to gather information. Iran says the drone is flying over its air space, the U.S. says its drones don’t fly over Iranian air space, Barbra Star explains how else geography factors in and why this is bad news for U.S. intelligence if Iran is telling the truth. 

Iranian authority say they shut down a highly classified U.S. unmanned spy plane over its territory along its eastern border with Afghanistan. Iran says the drone they shut down is an RQ170, now that’s of the most secret drones in the U.S. military and intelligence arsenal, a stealth drone, they can fly largely undetected gathering intelligence and targeting information. So far the U.S. using the NATO alliance against Afghanistan to issue a statement that it’s only saying, quote, “the UVA to which the Iranians are referring may be a U.S. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan last week. The operators of the UAV lost control of the aircraft and that had been working to determine its status.” That according to the statement, now U.S. officials tell CNN the fly crew operating the drone did report a loss of flight controls before the drone went down, but they are not saying it was shut down and they are not saying it’s RQ-170. The key question now is shut down or not. Do the Iranians have their hands on classified intelligence technology, if the Iranians do the U.S knows it’s not getting any of that back. Barbra Star CNN, Washington.

 

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