Tehran said it had decoded hard drives and data bases on the RQ-170 Sentinel - an announcement that increased fears of Russia and China gaining access to the top-secret technology.
Brig.-Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards' aerospace forces, gave details of the aircraft's operational history as proof that engineers had successfully accessed its records.
He said the drone had flown over Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan a fortnight before the al-Qaida chief had been killed in an American special forces raid. It had flown in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, in November 2010 before suffering technical difficulties and being sent for tests on its sensors to an airfield near Los Angeles.
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