Iran has captured a US drone that was flying in the country's airspace and gathering intelligence over Gulf waters, its media reported.
The ScanEagle drone was captured by the naval unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Fars news agency reported.
The agency said the drone had been captured sometime "in the last few days". It offered no details on the location or how it had been seized.
"These kinds of aircraft are normally launched from large ships," said Ali Fadavi, the Guard's naval commander, according to Fars.
A US Navy spokesman said they were aware of the reports, and were looking into them.
In 2011 Iran claimed it brought down a CIA spy drone after it entered Iranian airspace from its eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Tehran later said it had retrieved data from the RQ-170 Sentinel, a top-secret drone equipped with stealth technology.
The ScanEagle is manufactured by Boeing Co.
According to the firm's website, the drone is four-feet (1.2-metre) long and has a 10-foot (three-metre) wingspan.
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