Iran's state television has broadcast footage allegedly extracted from the advanced CIA spy drone captured in 2011.
The video aired late on Wednesday shows an aerial view of an airport and a city, said to be a US drone base and Kandahar in Afghanistan.
The TV also showed images purported to be the Sentinel landing at a base in eastern Iran, but it was unclear if that footage was the moment of the drone's seizure.
The chief of the Revolutionary Guard's airspace division, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said that only after capturing the drone, did Iran realise it "belongs to the CIA".
A US ScanEagle Iran claims it seized last December "We were able to definitively access the data of the drone, once we brought it down," he said.
Iran has long claimed it managed to reverse-engineer the RQ-170 Sentinel, seized in December 2011 after it entered Iranian airspace from its eastern border with Afghanistan.
It claims it is capable of launching its own production line for the unmanned aircraft.
After initially saying only that a drone had been lost near the Afghan-Iran border, American officials eventually confirmed the Sentinel had been monitoring Iran's military and nuclear facilities.
Washington asked for it back but Iran refused, and instead released photos of Iranian officials studying the aircraft.
Iran has accused the US of stepping up its espionage activities as part of intensified Western efforts to force Tehran to abandon its uranium enrichment programme.
The US and its allies suspect Iran may be trying to develop atomic weapons, which Tehran denies.
In an attempt to embarrass Washington, Iran has claimed to have captured several American drones, most recently in December last year, when Tehran said it seized a Boeing-designed ScanEagle drone.
US officials said there was no evidence that the latest claims were true.
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