TEHRAN, August 25. /ITAR-TASS/. Iran will retaliate for Israel's sending a drone aircraft to the site of its Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, a senior officer at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday.

“Arming of Palestinians on the West Bank may be speeded up,” said General Ali Haji Zadeh in a report posted on the IRGC’s official website.

“We reserve the right to any kind of response to the raid of a Hermes spy drone that tried to break into the protected area of Natanz but was brought down by an Iranian air defense system,” the report said.

In a televised speech on Monday, Iranian Defense Minister Hosein Dehqan said debris from the drone had arrived at a laboratory where experts would look for data in its memory blocks.