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Trump Shrugs After Iran Shoots Down a U.S. ‘Spy’ Drone

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down a U.S. surveillance drone by a surface to air missile, amid the escalating tensions of the oil tanker crisis in the Gulf of Oman. The Iranians said the drone had entered Iranian airspace while while U.S. Central Command denounced “an unprovoked attack on a U.S. surveillance aircraft...

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The Trumped-Up Case Against Iran’s ‘Terrorist’ IRGC

The initial coverage of President Trump’s designation of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organization” has oddly avoided a central question. CIA and Pentagon officials tell the New York Times the decision would threaten U.S. military personnel in the region. Iraqi observers tell Al-Monitor’s Laura Rozen the designation might alienate Iraq...

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U.S. Military Forced to Destroy Drone After it Was Hacked By Iran

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Aerospace Division struck back at the United States last week after learning that the U.S. had made concerted efforts to sabotage Iran’s ballistic missile program. Last Friday, the IRGC said it had penetrated US drone command and control networks, releasing footage of a US military aircraft bombing a hacked drone out of...