Hawzah News Agency (Tehran, Iran) - Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers leader Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari blasted the US for violating Iran's airspace, and said that Iran will bury the US intruders in its Southern territorial waters.

Addressing a large and fervent congregation of the people in Tehran on Friday, Hojjatoleslam Haj Ali Akbari said, "The Strait of Hormuz belongs to Iran and Iran's Armed Forces will turn it into a graveyard for any aggressor."

The senior cleric, meantime, lauded the downing of the US drone by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, and said, "The United States has a long history of human rights violations against Iran."

Hojjatoleslam Haj Ali Akbari reiterated that the drone had sneaked into Iran's airspace and territorial waters.

He further condemned the US authorities’ claim that their drone had been flying over international waters, ridiculing the last night meeting at the White House on the incident for its insistence on the wrong claim.