Tehran: Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard said it has 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 was brought down by a missile. This stealth drone was trying to approach the Natanz nuclear zone,” the corps said on its website sepahnews.com.
“The act demonstrates a new adventurism by the Zionist regime. The Revolutionary Guard and the other armed forces reserve the right to respond,” it added.
Natanz is Iran’s main uranium enrichment site, housing more than 16,000 centrifuges. Around 3,000 more are at the Fordo plant, buried inside a mountain and hard to destroy. Israel also threatened to attack Iranian nuclear installations.
Iran and the P5+1 powers, Britain, China, France, Russia, the US and Germany, reached a six-month agreement under which Iran suspended part of its nuclear activities in return for a partial lifting of international sanctions. In July, the deal was extended until November 24 to give the two sides more time to negotiate a final accord aimed at ending 10 years of tensions over Iran’s nuclear plans
