Iranian fighter tries to intercept US drone in Gulf: US

An Iranian fighter jet tried to intercept a US Predator drone over the Gulf but an American military aircraft warned it off with a flare, the Pentagon said Thursday.

“One of the US aircraft discharged a flare as a warning to the Iranian plane, which then broke off pursuit,” spokesman George Little said in a statement. Officials had earlier suggested, incorrectly, that two Iranian jets were involved in the incident.