Iran shot down unknown surveillance drone on western border-state news agency

DUBAI: Iran recently shot down an unknown surveillance drone on its western border, the state news agency said on Saturday.

"After spotting the drone, our air defence system missiles shot it down," Farzad Fereidouni, commander of Anti-aircraft system in Kermanshah province was quoted as saying by IRNA.

"We have given warning to 12 unknown flights last year and they have left Iran's air space." He did not mention which country the shot-down drone belonged to.

Fereidouni added, "The drone which was shot down in Kermanshah province was of reconnaissance type."

Iran has brought down US surveillance and what it claims to be Israeli drones in recent years.

Read: Iran says it downed Israeli drone over nuclear site

In August last year, Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard claimed it had brought down an Israeli stealth drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the centre of the country.

“A spy drone of the Zionist regime (Israel) was brought down by a missile… This stealth drone was trying to approach the Natanz nuclear zone,” the corps said in a statement on its official website sepahnews.com.

“This act demonstrates a new adventurism by the Zionist regime… The Revolutionary Guard and the other armed forces reserve the right to respond to this act,” the statement added.