Iran’s foreign minister on Thursday demanded that Afghanistan stop allowing the U.S. to launch spy drones from Afghan bases to be flown over Iranian airspace, or else it will be received as a threatening act.
“We have demanded the government of Afghanistan study the case seriously and not allow such an incident to happen anymore, otherwise it will be seen as an unfriendly act,” Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said, referring to the recent American surveillance drone recovered after a crash in Iran.
A day prior to Iran’s demand, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta vowed to continue the spy operations over Iranian airspace, saying the operations were part of U.S. efforts to defend both Afghanistan and America and involve “important intelligence operations which we will continue to pursue.”
Earlier in the week, Iran had summoned an Afghan envoy to protest the U.S. drone operations, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Afghanistan doesn’t want to be involved in any “adversarial relations” between the U.S. and Iran.
i wonder if Iran might not take their case to the U.N.?
i wonder what would happen if they did?
If US use its veto power to circumvent numerous UN ruling regarding Israel illegal occupation and the deaths of thousands of Palestinians, whose only crime is that Israel covet Palestinian land; It stands to reason that the US would also use its veto power to stymie any proceedings Iran might instigate against the US.
The UN has as much credibility as my left foot. The myth about UN being synonymous with Peacekeeping, Justice and a Fair Go, has been soundly thrashed for they are the harbinger of everlasting wars and destruction.
If the Iranian are really that good at taking down the drones, they should invite the US to send more drones. If they really took control of the drone by hacking into it's GPS guidance system, they might have had only one tech unit with the capacity to take control within a few miles.