Iranian company will give U.S. a toy model of downed drone

January 17, 2012 - 15:18
TEHRAN - An Iranian company is sending the United States a model of the American surveillance drone captured by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in December, the radio reported on Tuesday.

The radio said the company will send the miniature of the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone to the Obama administration in response to a formal request from Washington last month asking Tehran to return the aircraft, the Washington Post reported.

The model will be one eightieth the size of the original aircraft, the radio said. 

The company also plans to sell the models on the market for about 70,000 rials, or around $4.

Iran has rejected President Barack Obama’s request to return the drone, calling the aircraft’s incursion of Iranian airspace a “hostile act.”