Iran Navy blocks US aircraft from entering airspace
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The Iranian Navy blocked a US aircraft from entering Iranian airspace in light of tensions between the two countries.
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An Iranian warship carries drones during a drill in the Indian Ocean, July 15, 2022 (AP)
The Iranian Navy detected an aircraft operated by their US counterparts over the Sea of Oman and forced it to avoid the country's airspace issuing a warning to Washington's forces, Iranian media reported Sunday.
The public relations department of the Iranian naval forces said Sunday that a US Navy's EP-3E aircraft was about to violate Iran's airspace over the Sea of Oman. This prompted the Iranian Navy to issue a warning to the aircraft.
Tehran's forces blocked the aircraft's unauthorized entry into the Iranian airspace, as it heeded the warning and stayed away from the Iranian territories before returning to international airspace.
The EP-3E is an airplane manufactured by Lockheed Martin and it is an electronic signals reconnaissance variant of the P-3 Orion operated by the US Navy.
This comes amid tensions between the United States and Iran, as Washington is blaming Tehran for bombings that targeted its occupation bases in Syria.
The US claims that Iran was behind the attacks on its occupation bases, launching a "retaliatory attack", which killed six people who were not believed to have been Iranian, though they were associated with the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC).
Meanwhile, at a joint press conference following a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday that US accusations alleging Iran carried out an attack on US occupation bases in Syria were wrong, noting that Tehran had no intention of fueling tensions and has always called for enhancing regional peace and security.
He noted that Washington's accusations were "baseless, unsubstantiated" and it "accused others instead of presenting any evidence."
"We do not want tension and unnecessary confrontation, the Islamic Republic of Iran has always played a positive, constructive role in lasting peace and security in the region," Amir-Abdollahian added.
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Several rockets and drones targeted in late March US occupation bases in the Conoco gas field and Al-Omar oil field east of Deir Ezzor, Eastern Syria.
A few hours earlier, the US military said it carried out "precision airstrikes" in eastern Syria in response to an alleged drone attack that killed one American and injured five US service personnel.
A Department of Defense statement claimed that the casualties fell "after a one-way unmanned aerial vehicle struck a maintenance facility on a Coalition base near Hasakah in northeast Syria."
A day later, Syria slammed the savage aggression carried out by the US occupation forces on several areas in the Deir Ezzor Governorate that resulted in the killing of several people, the wounding of others, and material damage.
It is noteworthy that the US has for long employed the alleged "ISIS threat" as a pretext to continue its illegal occupation of northeastern Syrian territories.
Furthermore, the Pentagon reported that six US occupation soldiers suffered "traumatic brain injuries" during the two attacks that targeted their illegal bases in Syria.
The disclosure further raises the human toll among American forces from strikes and counter-strikes in Syria last week to a total of 12 US occupation troops wounded. The attacks also killed an American contractor and injured another.
