Iran posts video ‘proof’ repudiating Trump claims US shot down Iranian drone

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On Thursday,  according to CNN, US President Donald Trump claimed that US Navy assault ship, the USS Boxer, shot down an Iranian drone that had come within about 1,000 yards of it in the Strait of Hormuz. “The Boxer took defensive action against an Iranian drone, which had closed into a near distance, approximately 1000 yards, ignoring multiple calls to stand down threatening safety of ship and ship’s crew,” Trump said.

The drone “was immediately destroyed,” Trump said, and the incident was just “the latest of many provocative and hostile actions against vessels operating in international waters.”

Today, Iran’s military says all of its drones are accounted for and that it had successfully tracked and monitored the USS Boxer via its overhead unmanned aerial system (UAS) without incident. Then a few hours later, Iran aired video “proof” that its version of events are correct on state TV.

Iran is claiming that Trump’s accusations cannot be true as the time stamp shows the drone was still in the air after the time Trump says it was shot down by the US Navy.