Soldiers raise an Iranian flag Monday, July 23, 2012 during the Flag Raising ceremony for Iran at the Olympic Village in London four days before the start of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. (AP)
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV says the country has retrieved thousands of pages of information from devices used by 10 U.S. Navy sailors briefly detained by Iran in January.
Iranian national flags (top) flutter above red religious banners during the inauguration of a memorial plaque bearing one hundred anti-American comments made by the Islamic republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and displayed on the fence of the former American embassy in Tehran, on September 2, 2015. The leader of the Islamic revolution dubbed the United States the 'Great Satan' on account of its policies and support for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last royal ruler before the Islamic Republic was founded. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)
The Tuesday report quotes Gen. Ali Razmjou saying the information was retrieved from laptops, GPS devices and maps. Razmjou is a naval commander in the powerful Revolutionary Guard.
Gen. Razmjou said the move falls within Iran's rights under international regulations. He says the information fills about 13 thousand pages.
The nine men and one woman were detained for less than a day in January after they drifted into Iranian waters off of Farsi Island, an outpost in the middle of the Persian Gulf that has been used as a base for Revolutionary Guard speedboats since the 1980s.
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