"At 00:14, an American drone secretly flew out of the UAE and violated Iranian airspace," he wrote.

According to Iranian Foreign Minister, the drone was shot down at 04:05. He added that the Iranian side recovered part of the wreckage of the UAV in its territorial waters, where "the drone was shot down."

At 00:14 US drone took off Iranian airspace UAE in stealth mode & violated. It was targeted at 04:05 at the coordinates (25 ° 59'43 "N 57 ° 02'25" E) near Kouh-e Mobarak.

We have retrieved sections of the territorial waters where it was shot down. pic.twitter.com/pJ34Tysmsg

- Javad Zarif (@JZarif) June 20, 2019

Earlier, US President Donald Trump admitted that the decision to bring down the American drone could have been made in Iran by mistake.