Iran's Press TV on Thursday broadcast an extended video tour of the U.S. spy drone that went down in the country late last week--and it indeed looks to be intact.

American officials have acknowledged that an unmanned U.S. reconnaissance plane was lost on a mission late last week, but have insisted that there is no evidence the drone was downed by hostile acts by Iran. Rather, they said, the drone likely went down because of a malfunction, and they implied the advanced stealth reconnaissance plane would have fallen from a high altitude--the RQ-170 Sentinel can fly as high as 50,000 feet--and as a result, wouldn't be in good shape.

Iranian military officials have claimed since Sunday they brought down an intact American spy drone--and now they are giving tours of the drone, in what is sure to be another humiliating poke in the eye for U.S. national security agencies.

"On Sunday December 4, the Iranian Army's electronic warfare unit downed the US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft which was flying over the Iranian city of Kashmar, some 140 miles (225km) from the Afghan border," Iran's Press TV said in its report Thursday.

The New York Times reported Thursday that--unsurprisingly--the RQ-170 was lost while making the latest foray over Iran during an extended CIA surveillance effort of Iran's nuclear and ballistic weapons program.

I would like to see Iran pluck a spy plane 50,000 feet in the air. Note that's nearly twice as high as commercial airliners at cruising altitude. Give them a thousand shots of any type of ammunition and I bet they couldn't do it. That they want to take credit for downing a spy plane is a joke. A lot can go wrong at such heights, so malfunction is really the only thing that COULD have happened. Some goat farmers were probably walking along and found it.

Can the UN just get rid of Iran please?

I can't see what Iran has done wrong. Apart from catching you out that is.

Fairly ignorant to presume the chinese...or better yet the russians don't have there own means of spying. It wouldn't be very bad it'd be no different to how it already is. God knows what you expect the russians to do. Like China would do anything it's happy sitting back letting us **** up.

As for it being damaged if shot down. It's fairly strange it crashed and didn't sustain any major damage from the crash. I doubt Iran did shoot it down. But them putting a spin on it is no different to what your media would do in there position.

And apart from scarring most their Middle East neighbors and the world. And apart from presumably pursuing nuclear weapons. And apart from other considerations as well.

but it's not "our media",it's "the media", the states aren't represented by "the media". Take your narcissism hat off please.