Hawzah News Agency - (Lahore - Pakistan) - In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in the Pakistani city of Lahore, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Jawad Naqvi stressed that Iran has disgraced the United States by shooting down its drone over the Persian Gulf and said, “Many incidents have taken place in the Persian Gulf and on June 20th, an important incident took place in this region wherein Iran shot down an American spy drone. This was a drone of the latest technology which they used for spying in many places to obtain images and observe the military movements of other countries. They flew this drone from a base in the United Arab Emirates and entered Iranian territorial waters.”
The principal of Jami’at Urwat al-Wuthqa Islamic Seminary in Lahore added, “This wasn’t the first time that this has happened – In December 2011 also Iran was able to down an American drone by using electronic systems to take control of it. They reverse engineered it and started to manufacture drones themselves. The Obama administration asked Iran to return the captured drone but Iran refused to return it. This drone contained advanced technology and its downing was a big shock for the world. In such a situation where the United States came with its marine fleets, forces and technology and has besieged Iran along with its Arab alliance and talks about war every day, Iran has shown the courage to down its drone. The reaction which Trump has shown was only a small statement that Iran has made a big mistake and he wasn’t expecting Iran to do this.”
Hujjat al-Islam Naqvi also referred to the visit by Shinzō Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, and said, “Abe came to Iran as a representative of Trump and met the Supreme Leader of the IslamicRevolution and received a historic response from him. This was a historic moment for every Muslim in the world. Every community must witness that despite of being besieged and suffering from high inflation and many threats and having the entire world against them but for the sake of their dignity, they aren’t surrendering to anyone. They have said ‘if the United States makes a mistake we will punish them.’ The drone didn’t even enter into Iran’s airspace and was shot down while it was above Iranian territorial waters.”