Claim: Footage shows Israeli missiles targeting Iran on 13 June 2025.
Fact: The video appeared online at least eight months ago and is unrelated to Israel’s offensive against Iran on 13 June.
On 13 June, X user @saed_anzy posted a video (archive) purportedly showing Israel’s attack on Iran. The description stated [translated from Arabic]: “Despite all our differences with #ايران , today it is paying the price for standing with our brothers in Gaza, and we ask God Almighty to grant it victory over the enemies of this nation. #طهران #إسرائيل”
Israel’s attack on Iran
The conflict between Israel and Iran moved into its sixth day on 18 June, with the two countries exchanging deadly attacks.
Early morning on 13 June, Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear sites and military bases. The attacks have also struck residential areas.
The missiles targeted the Natanz nuclear site, Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility. Israel also struck the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center, damaging four buildings. The offensive killed six Iranian nuclear scientists, including Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, president of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran.
Israeli attacks also killed top Iranian military officials, including General Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, and General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The same day, Iran also confirmed that Israel had killed “Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s missile program.” Gholamali Rashid, the head of the IRGC’s Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, was also killed in the attack.
Soon after, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named replacements for the two top Iranian commanders killed in the attack, the AP reported.
Israel’s attacks had killed at least 224 people and injured another 1,481, according to Al Jazeera’s 16 June report that cited the Iranian Ministry of Health. It is necessary to note that Iran has not been regularly publishing death tolls during this time period and has previously minimised casualties.
Some 200 Israeli jets were involved in the attacks targeting 100 sites in Iran, The Guardian reported.
In response, Iran launched drones towards Israel, some of which were reportedly intercepted by Jordan and also spotted in Iraq’s airspace. According to an Israeli military official, the country’s air defences had “shot down many of the over 100 drones launched by Iran.” The retaliatory attacks have killed at least 24 people and wounded another 380.
The Israeli offensive occurred ahead of the nuclear talks between the US and Iran, which were scheduled to take place on 15 June in Muscat, Oman. On 14 June, officials confirmed that the discussions between the two countries had been cancelled.
While the US initially distanced itself from this attack, calling Israel’s actions “unilateral”, US President Donald Trump later called the attack “excellent”. He asserted that more were to come unless Iran agrees to a deal with the US on its nuclear program. On 17 June, Trump warned Iranian citizens to “immediately evacuate” Tehran, and called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” the following day. Trump said the US knew where Iran’s supreme leader was hiding, but did not want him killed “for now.”
On 18 June, Khamenei rejected Trump’s call for surrender and warned any US “strikes on its territory” would have “serious irreparable consequences.”
UN Secretary General António Guterres condemned the attack and urged restraint. “He is particularly concerned by Israeli attacks on nuclear installations in Iran while talks between Iran and the United States on the status of Iran’s nuclear programme are underway,” said the UN statement.
Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif also condemned the attack on X, saying, “I convey my deepest sympathies to the Iranian people on the loss of lives in this attack. This grave and highly irresponsible act is deeply alarming and risks further de-stabilising an already volatile region.”
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim also condemned the attack, stating that it was “aimed at sabotaging ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran” and that “the attacks also came amid renewed scrutiny of Israel’s conduct in Gaza and mounting political pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Fact or Fiction?
Reverse-searching keyframes from the video showed that it predates Israel’s attack on Iran on 13 June 2025.
Several social media users shared this video when Iran conducted a ballistic missile attack on Israel in October 2024. One such post read (archive): “Missile rain on the Nevatim Airbase”. The video shared by the users matches footage from the claim, suggesting that it is eight months old and unrelated to the current Israel-Iran conflict.
Another user posted the same video on the website of Iranian news agency Fars News, in October 2024, with the caption: “Israel admits failure to intercept Iranian missiles”.
Notably, Turkish news website Ankara Masasi published a report (archive) that includes the video being fact-checked. Titled “Iran strikes Israel: This is how missiles lit up the night”, the article was published in October 2024. The third-last video included in this article is the same video shared in the claim. Besides, the images in this article, the third and fourth from the top, also match the keyframes from the video in the claim, which confirmed that it is not related to the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel.
On the left is the screen grab from the footage in the claim. On the right is the picture from the Turkish news website.
Therefore, Soch Fact Check confirms that the video is unrelated to Israel’s attack on Iran on 13 June 2025.
Virality
The X post received 10,000 likes and was viewed over 1 million times.
Posts claiming that the video shows Iran retaliating to Israel’s June 2025 attacks appeared on X here, here.
Conclusion: The video does not show Israel’s attack on Iran on 13 June 2025. It appeared online at least eight months ago and likely shows Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel in October 2024.
Background image in cover photo: Al Jazeera
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