An armed drone that was allegedly forced down by Syrian government forces near Mount Hermon on the Golan Heights on Saturday belongs to Iran, and not to Israel, the IDF's Arabic-language Spokesman Avichai Edrei intimated in a tweet on Saturday night.
Syrian authorities said they had captured and dismantled the drone, which was rigged with cluster bombs, near the border with Israel, state news agency SANA said.
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SANA gave no further details about the drone but posted several photos of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
"Could it be that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing?! Today [Saturday] we saw proof from the Syrians that [Iranian Quds Force commander] Qassem Soleimani is doing whatever he wants in Syria and certainly isn't telling the Assad regime about it," Edrei tweeted.
The Quds Force is the foreign operational arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
"The drone which the Syrians claimed [Saturday] morning was downed near the Hermon is surprisingly the same area from which Soleimani's people from the Quds Force, among them two Lebanese nationals, tried carrying out the drone attack [against Israel] a month ago and failed," Edrei added.
"An IDF drone it is not," Edrei continued in his tweet. "Is this yet more uncoordinated Iranian activity on the Syrian Golan Heights? Thank you to SANA for the photographs. With your help, we received further evidence that shows the nature of Iranian activity in the area."
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said it was not clear if Syrian troops or Hezbollah had downed the drone.
The incident came two days after another drone was destroyed over Aqraba, a suburb of the capital, Damascus. That's the same suburb where an Israeli airstrike killed two Hezbollah operatives last month.
In neighboring Lebanon, a government investigation concluded Thursday that two Israeli drones were on an attack mission when they crashed in the capital last month, one of them armed with 4.5 kilograms (10 pounds) of explosives.
