Iran says it twice warned aggressive US drones

Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency is reporting that the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard has recently issued two warnings to aggressive U.S. drones.

The Saturday report quotes Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Gen. Mehdi Rabbani as saying an American MQ-9 drone had twice entered Iranian air space — once on May 26 and again on June 13 — and was confronted with hard warnings.

A RQ-4 Global Hawk drone conducts tests over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, U.S. in this undated U.S. Navy photo. [File Photo: VCG/Attention Editors /U.S. Navy/Erik Hildebrandt/Northrop Grumman]

Gen. Rabbani said the advanced drone took off from a U.S. base in Kuwait on May 26 and flew about 20 hours near Iran's airspace.

When it approached the Iranian coast, it turned around after determining "our air defense system targeted and locked in on it."

On June 13, the drone took off from another country and when it crossed into Iran, "Our air defense systems locked in on it and it made a few warning shots."

Tasnim said the U.S. claimed that Iran launched missiles against the drone.