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Good point. Updated my original comment, thanks. In fact, they made the news a couple weeks ago: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-spy-drone-retrea

• cess11 2y ago
  Is it really bizarre, though? Between 1953 and 1979 Iran was a US vassal dictatorship, I think it would have been more bizarre for the revolutionaries to destroy the military equipment they came in possession of. The "spy drone" is likely MQ-9, which is large, slow and somewhat clunky, and routinely shot down by the Yemeni Air Force.
  • light_hue_1 2y ago
    > Between 1953 and 1979 Iran was a US vassal dictatorship This is nonsense. You should read a history of Iran or at least the wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi Reza played the powers against one another. At times the US dictated what happened. At times Reza had more leverage and dictated terms to the US. It certainly was not a US vassal and did plenty of things that annoyed the US. Heck, the US didn't even control the oil industry in Iran, Britain did.
    • cess11 2y ago
      "The Shah's diplomatic foundation was the United States' guarantee that it would protect his regime". Did you read it?
    • r00fus 2y ago
      So Iran was a UK puppet then. Still a pawn of "the west". MI6 and Mossad were as involved in the 1953 assassination of Mossadegh as the CIA.