MP: Iran Has Pictures of Restricted Israeli Areas

Iran holds pictures of Israeli bases and other restricted areas obtained from a drone launched into Israeli airspace last month, an Iranian lawmaker said.

Last month, a Hezbollah pilotless drone penetrated Israel’s much boasted air defense systems and was noticed and shot down only a few kilometers away from the Zionist regime’s main atomic center in the Negev desert.

Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the aircraft, saying its parts had been manufactured in Iran and assembled in Lebanon.

The drone transmitted pictures of Israel’s “sensitive bases” before it was shot down, member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmail Kowsari told Arabic-language Al-Alam TV channel.

“These aircraft transmit their pictures online, and right now we possess pictures of restricted areas,” Kowsari was quoted as saying.

Israeli air space is closely monitored by the Zionist regime’s military and, except for commercial air corridors, is restricted, with special attention paid to numerous military and security installations.

Israeli threats to bomb Iranian nuclear sites if diplomacy and sanctions fail to stop Tehran’s nuclear program are a flashpoint for tensions in the Middle East.

Iran’s military regularly announces defense and engineering developments.

Yet, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced last Sunday that the downed drone did not represent Iran’s latest know-how in drone technology.

In April, Iran announced it had started to build a copy of a US surveillance drone, the RQ-170 Sentinel, captured last year after it was downed near the country’s border with Afghanistan.