Iran says it refrained from shooting down U.S. plane with 35 on board - Tasnim news
By REUTERSIranian TV shows purported retrieved sections of downed U.S. drone(photo credit: REUTERS)
LONDON - Iran refrained from shooting down a US plane with 35 people on board that was accompanying the downed drone in the Gulf, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Friday.Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency: "With the US drone in the region there was also an American P-8 plane with 35 people on board. This plane also entered our airspace and we could have shot it down, but we did not."
