December 12th, 2011
01:32 PM ET

U.S. wants drone back from Iran, Obama says

President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States has asked Iran to return a U.S. drone aircraft that Iran claims it recently brought down in Iranian territory.

"We've asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond," Obama said in a news conference.

The president's comments come one day after it was reported that an Iranian official said the country would not return the drone.

"No nation welcomes other countries' spy drones in its territory, and no one sends back the spying equipment and its information back to the country of origin," said Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the Armed Forces, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

"It makes no difference where this drone originated and which group or country sent it to invade our air space," Salami said. "This was an act of invasion and belligerence."

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  1. hamsta

    ya thats how u win a war bend over and kiss their butt while u wait for al qeada to ram u without the k-y jelly.so whats the big deal if lowes doesnt support terrorist propoganda.its time to go back to what worked.get like ww2 and round up all the iranians and put them in concentration camps while we nuke iran.

    December 13, 2011 at 12:46 am | Report abuse |
    • anonymous

      I have a better idea: exterminate all retarded human waste like you and bomb every US base in the world.

      December 13, 2011 at 7:29 am | Report abuse |
  2. thiago

    American's idiots!

    December 13, 2011 at 1:13 am | Report abuse |
  3. Jack

    I am actually ashamed to be an American at this moment. That we could have elected someone sostupid to actually go on TV and beg an enemy that they send our spy plane back after it crashed on their soil. This guy is totally whacked.

    December 13, 2011 at 2:19 am | Report abuse |
    • kourosh

      mate it didnt crash! they took control of it while it was on the air!:)

      December 13, 2011 at 8:42 am | Report abuse |
  4. banasy©

    I agree with Apostle14 completely.
    Obama knew they wouldn't give the drone back, but the opposition would use it against him if he *didn't*, so he did.
    I see what he did there.
    Well played.

    December 13, 2011 at 6:50 am | Report abuse |
  5. sam

    Stop threating the WORLD with WARS THEN

    December 13, 2011 at 6:54 am | Report abuse |
  6. ronvan

    YEP, just another mess. We have so many smart people that I guess they think nothing will ever go wrong! A self destruct device, in this case, would have made everything mute. What puzzles me is that the picture shown on our TV does not look anything like the one Iran is showing. There is their picture which shows something different and looks like it was just freshly painted, and no crash damage.

    December 13, 2011 at 8:11 am | Report abuse |
  7. Helena

    The war industry is largely Republican,they are the ones that are in power and the most wealthy. The rich are the winners and winner take all,not caring about us so called commoners. I hope our young troops wise up and not fight a old rich mens war for profit. They die and are crippled,mentally and physically for these old rich Bast-rds

    December 13, 2011 at 2:11 pm | Report abuse |
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