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Iran has claimed to hack and bring down a surveillance drone spying on it during a military exercise with the name Payambar-e Azam 8 on Saturday.



Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps conducted a hacking operation on foreign surveillance during the first day of military exercises going on with the name of Payambar-e Azam 8 (The Great Prophet 8).

Islamic Republic News Agency reports that Iran�s General Hamid Sarkheili who is also a spokesman for Payambar-e Azam 8 war games told the media that surveillance drone was hacked outside the military exercise zone.

General Hamid stated that

�Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps are keeping an eye on every spy drone movements in far distance and that�s how the suspicious drone movement was observed, controlled and hacked down by the use of electronic war.�

This is not the first time when Iran has taken down a spy drone, in 2011 Iran took down an American surveillance drone flying over Iran illegally.

General Hamid Sarkheili claims that

�IRGC drones are now monitoring the movements of the hypothetical enemy in the wargame zone, while electronic warfare units are wiretapping enemy communications.�

Iran didn�t accuse or mentioned any country of spying via drone. However, Iran has accused US of spying over its Nuclear Power Stations for a long time.