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April 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
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Iranians gather around a replica of an American spy drone on display next to Azadi (Freedom) square during a ceremony marking the 33rd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Tehran on Feb. 11.
A top Iranian official claimed on Sunday that his government was copying a top-secret American spy drone captured by Iran’s armed forced last year.
General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who is chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying that Iranian experts are recovering information from the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel captured in December in eastern Iran, al Arabiya News reported.
“There is almost no part hidden to us in this aircraft. We recovered part of the data that had been erased. There were many codes and characters. But we deciphered them by the grace of God,” Hajizadeh said.
Drone that crashed in Iran risks secret U.S. technology
He said all operations carried out by the drone had been recorded in the memory of the aircraft, including maintenance and testing.
The experts had extracted data showing that the aircraft had spied on the compound where Osama bin Laden lived and was eventually killed, Hajizadeh reportedly said.
“In October 2010, the aircraft was sent to California for some technical issues, where it was repaired and after flight tests, it was taken to Kandahar (in Afghanistan) in November 2010, when a series of technical problems still prevailed,” he said, according to al Arabiya.
NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reports on the American stealth drone that crashed in Iran and whether it is giving the Iranians access to a wealth of U.S. technology.
Iran flaunted the capture of the Sentinel, a surveillance drone with stealth technology, as a victory for Iran and a defeat for the United States in a complicated intelligence and technological battle.
While American officials aknowledged Iran’s capture of the drone, they have said that Tehran would find it hard to exploit data and technology aboard.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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