Model response to US ‘incursion’

An IRANIAN company is sending the United States a model of a captured surveillance drone.

A report on state radio said the company would send a miniature of the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone to the White House in response to a formal request from Washington last month asking Tehran to return the aircraft that went down over Iran in December.

The model will be one eightieth the size of the original. The report said the company also plans to sell the models for around £1 in Iran. Tehran has rejected a US request to return the drone, calling its incursion an “invasion” and “hostile act.”