DHAKA: Teheran will ‘accelerate’ arming Palestinians in retaliation for Israel deploying a spy drone over Iran, which was shot down.

A military commander said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.

‘We will accelerate the arming of the West Bank and we reserve the right to give any response,’ said General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, commander of aerial forces of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, in a statement on their official website sepahnews.com.

Iran, which does not recognise the existence of Israel, has confirmed it supplied Palestinian fighters from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad with the technology for the rockets being fired relentlessly into Israel from Gaza since July 8.

Iran’s warning comes a day after the Guards said they had brought down an Israeli ‘Hermes’ stealth drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the centre of the country.

BDST: 1947 HRS, AUG 25, 2014