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Friday, April 17, 2009

"Iranian drone" Photo is Israeli?

Iran may have been doing some photo tampering again, reminiscent of the "missile launch" photo last year that had clearly been Photoshopped. This time Press TV, the Iranian news agency, has apparently run a photo of a soon-to-be-unveiled "Iranian drone" that is actually an Israeli Heron, and the photo is identical to an Israel Aircraft Industries photo of the Heron. Since Iran has not unveiled its drone yet, and since some sort of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been detected operating over Iraq, it may just be that Press TV substituted a drone photo they had on hand for the still-secret Iranian one. But it still is rather ironic that they chose an Israeli one.

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