Iran Threatened to Down US Surveillance Jets Over Weekend

Three US defense officials, interviewed by the channel, said the jets had ignored the warning because they were in the international airspace 13 miles off the Iranian coast. Under UN rules, a state’s territorial waters extend up to 12 nautical miles beyond the shore.”We wanted to test the Iranian reaction,” one of the officials in the know about the incident said to Fox News. “It’s one thing to tell someone to get off your lawn, but we weren’t on their lawn. Anytime you threaten to shoot someone down, it’s not considered professional.”