Claim: A video shows where the United States dropped a bunker-buster bomb in Iran while locals are seen exploring the area.
Fact: The video is likely AI-generated.
On 27 June 2025, a Facebook user shared a reel that claimed to show the area in Iran where the United States had dropped their bunker-buster bomb. The video is filmed by a woman standing near a large crater, which is the alleged site of the attack. Speaking in Urdu, she says:
“یہ ہے وہ جگہ جہاں امریکہ نے بنکر بسٹر بامب گرایا۔ ایرانی لوگ یہاں سیر و تفریح کے لیے پہنچ رہے ہیں۔”
In English, this translates to:
“This is the place where America dropped its bunker-buster bomb. Iranians are now touring here for fun.”
The video also features an embedded caption in Urdu, which reads as follows:
“امریکہ نے ایران میں جس جگہ بم گرایا لوگ سیر کے لیے آ رہے ہیں۔”
This reads in English as follows:
“People are coming to visit the site where the US dropped the bomb in Iran.”
The post’s own caption states:
“جہان امریکہ نے بم گراۓ ایران والے سیر کرنے أگۓ”
This reads in English as follows:
“Where America dropped bombs, Iranians went for a walk.”
Israel’s attack on Iran
Iran and Israel engaged in an intense military “12-day conflict”, which began on 13 June this year when the latter launched an attack on Iran that killed its top military leadership, six nuclear scientists, and damaged some of its key nuclear sites. The attack also struck residential areas, killing hundreds of civilians. In the days that followed, Israel struck Iran’s oil and gas facilities as well. According to a 30 June report by the Associated Press (AP), which cited the Washington-based Human Rights Activists group, more than 1,000 people were killed in Israel’s attacks in Iran, including at least 417 civilians.
Iran’s retaliatory strikes
On 13 and 14 June, Iran fired a barrage of missiles and launched drones at 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 shot down many of the 100 drones. On 24 June, the AP reported that up to 24 people were killed and over 1,000 injured in Israel, according to the Human Rights Activists group.
US enters the war
The United States entered the war on 21 June 2025, striking three of Iran’s major nuclear sites. Iran retaliated by launching strikes on the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, marking one of the largest direct strikes by Tehran on “US targets in the region”.
On 23 June, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, which was declared effective the following day.
Fact or Fiction?
To confirm if the United States had in fact dropped a bunker-buster bomb in Iran, we conducted a Google search for “American bunker buster Iran” led us to a report from the Associated Press (AP). During a Pentagon news briefing on 26 June 2025, American Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said that bunker-buster bombs were dropped only on the Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordo and Natanz. During the briefing, it was also stated that bunker-buster bombs were not used on the nuclear facility in Isfahan due to the site being “so deep that the bombs likely would not have been effective”, reported CNN. We did not find any news reports or videos from credible news agencies that were filmed from within the nuclear facilities bombed by the US in Iran.
Then, to rule out the possibility that the video was old or shared in a false context, we conducted a reverse-image search of its keyframes. It led to instances of the video on Instagram and YouTube from 27 June, the same date the claim was shared on Facebook. Since it appeared to have no history before this date, it was likely not old or shared in a false context.
However, we also found another similar video from 27 June. It shows a woman reporting in Urdu from the alleged site the US dropped its bunker-buster bombs in Iran. Upon closer inspection, the video displayed a TikTok account handle named “ai.hub73”. This account appears to post videos that are exclusively AI-generated.
Based on this, we suspected that the video in the claim might be AI-generated too. Therefore, Soch Fact Check carried out a detailed analysis of its keyframes, which revealed glaring signs of artificial intelligence: the first is the presence of multiple distorted faces in the video, and the second is the presence of malformed fingers and hands.
The distorted faces and hands can be seen in the zoomed-in keyframes below. As noted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media lab, faces are key to identifying AI-generated videos because “High-end DeepFake manipulations are almost always facial transformations”.
In the following frame, the person’s face is extremely distorted, with no realistic human features apart from the hair on his head.
In the frame below, the child squatting on the ground does not appear to have any facial features either:
The fingers and hands of people in the video are also not properly formed, as seen in the frames below. McGill’s Office for Science and Society explains that AI continues to struggle with realistically rendering human hands, often generating “fingers that blend into one another in weird ways.”
In the following frame, the woman’s hands are not properly shaped and give off a claw-like appearance with only a few fingers.
While the following frame intuitively appears realistic, a closer look reveals that the person’s left hand is almost non-existent and his left arm also appears rather two-dimensional. Moreover, some of the fingers on both of his hands are fused with each other.
Besides our own analysis, we also ran the video’s keyframes through the InVID WeVerify tool, which tested the video on multiple algorithms including Zero, GHOST, CAGI, Double Quantization, DCT, and BLOCK. In the results for most of these algorithms (shown below), the keyframes exhibited massive areas coloured blue and green, indicating high levels of tampering.
Hence, in light of the evidence above, the video most likely does not show the actual sites the US dropped its bunker-buster bombs in Iran.
Virality
On Facebook, the claim was found here, here, and here.
On Instagram, the claim was found here, here, and here.
On YouTube, the claim was found here, here, and here.
On X, the claim was found here.
Conclusion: The video shows clear indications of being AI-generated, including distorted faces, fingers, and hands. It also exhibits high levels of tampering according to online image verification tools. Soch Fact Check, thus, rates this claim as false.
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