Iran Feature: Newsflash --- Tehran Does (Not) Shoot Down An Enemy Drone
Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 15:07
One of the US drones that Iran did not shoot down on Saturday
A tale of how Iranian propaganda went a bit too far --- and how the Western media, always on the look-out for a story of Tehran's threat, went along for the ride....
Press TV, the regime's English-language outlet, put up the Breaking headline on Saturday night, Iran Cyber-Warriors Take Control of Drone". As in December 2011 and January of this year, Tehran was going to parade another Western surveillance aircraft before the Iranian press, demonstrating how the Islamic Republic could not only defy the enemy but --- by reverse-engineering the drone --- turn the foe's weapons against it.
CNN quickly picked up the newsflash, and the Associated Press put out a fuller story.
The only problem was that none of this was true.