DOHA, November 7. /TASS/. Iran has intercepted an American MQ-9 drone over the island of Qeshm in the south of the country, the Tasnim news agency reported.

"A few minutes ago, an enemy MQ-9 drone of the US aggressor was shot down by the fire from the army’s modern air defense systems of the country’s integrated air defense system in the skies over Qeshm and destroyed," the agency quotes an army statement as saying.