Claim: A video shows a female Iranian military officer recording herself while showcasing Iran’s fighter jets.
Fact: The viral video is AI-generated.
A video circulating online appears to show a woman dressed in what seems to be a military uniform filming herself near fighter jets. In the clip, she says, “Habibi, come to Iran.”
The viral claim emerged amid the ongoing conflict between Iran with US and Israel.
US-Israel launch strikes in Iran
On 28 February 2026, President Donald Trump announced that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in airstrikes on his compound in Tehran as part of attacks codenamed Operation Epic Fury by the US and Operation Roaring Lion by Israel. He also urged “the Iranian people to take back their Country”, terming the moment as the “single greatest chance” to do so. Alongside Khamenei, members of his family — including “his daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were also killed” in the joint attack by the US and Israel, according to Al Jazeera. Additionally, Defence Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani, army chief Abdolrahim Mousavi, Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander-in-Chief Mohammad Pakpour were also assassinated. On 9 March, Iran announced that Mojtaba Khamenei will succeed his father Ali Khamenei as the country’s supreme leader, reported Reuters.
More than 860 people have died in Iran due to the relentless bombing by the US and Israel, according to a 3 March news report by Anadolu Agency, which cited Iranian Health Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour. On the other hand, on 4 March The Wall Street Journal quoted rights group Human Rights Activists in Iran as saying over 1,000 civilians have been killed.
Israel had last attacked Iran in June 2025, bombing multiple military and nuclear installments in the Islamic Republic and killing multiple senior politicians in what later came to be known as the 12-Day War. The US had joined Israel in last year’s conflict.
War justifications
However, the US has not provided clear justifications for its attack on Iran, according to CNN, which said “the [Trump] administration has delivered anything but clarity”, “declined to enunciate a consistent set of goals and motivations”, and “spent the three days since shifting the goalposts and contradicting itself”.
On 1 March, Reuters reported citing sources that during closed-door briefings to Congress staff, Trump administration officials acknowledged “there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first”. Then, on 2 March, according to ABC News, the US president laid out four objectives, saying, “First, we’re destroying Iran’s missile capabilities […] and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make. Second, we’re annihilating their navy. […] Third, we’re ensuring that the world’s number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon … And finally, we’re ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.”
And subsequently, on 3 March, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that Israel was going to attack Iran anyway so the American forces joined in expecting retaliation from Tehran.
On 9 March, Trump told CBS News “I think the war is very complete, pretty much”, and said the US was “very far ahead of schedule”. The BBC further reported that, speaking to Republican lawmakers, Trump said the US was drawn into a “short-term” military operation in Iran to “get rid of some very evil people”. He went on to say: “We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough”. The US president’s conflicting remarks have added to the uncertainty regarding the ongoing conflict.
Impact and casualties
In the initial days, the two countries also bombed the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in the southeastern city of Minab, killing over 160 children. The United Nations noted that it was “deeply disturbed”, while Israel said it was “investigating the incident”. Meanwhile, Rubio explained that American forces “would not deliberately target a school”.
The strikes also targeted the historic Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tehran. On the other hand, Iran launched “hundreds of missiles and unmanned drones” in attacks on US military bases in the Gulf states, with one strike near a luxury hotel in Dubai where four people were injured, CNN and the BBC reported. “Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait […] said they had intercepted missiles fired towards them,” the BBC added.
“Eleven people were killed in Israel, officials said, and deaths were reported in the United Arab Emirates [UAE], Kuwait and Bahrain,” NBC News reported. According to the Central Command (CENTCOM), as of 2 March, “six US service members have been killed in action”. Forbes reported that at least 11 people died in Israel, three in the UAE, two in Iraq, and one each in Bahrain, Oman, and Kuwait. “Israeli strikes on Lebanon reportedly killed at least 52 people,” it added.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check doubted the authenticity of the clip because it is unlikely for military personnel to record and publicly share footage showcasing a country’s military equipment such as fighter jets, particularly during an ongoing conflict. We then looked into the uniforms worn by female Iranian military and police officers and found that they did not match what the woman in the viral clip was wearing.
Notably, a headscarf is a standard part of women’s military uniforms in Iran, whereas the woman in the video appears with her hair uncovered. This suggested that the clip may not be genuine.
Some versions of the viral video also contained a TikTok watermark with the username @frosso12. This account’s bio read “Iran miltry,” while its display picture featured a Palestinian flag, indicating that the account is not a credible source for the Iranian military. We then located the viral clip on this account, and found that this was the earliest instance of it being shared online. It was captioned: “People of Iran raise their voices for freedom, justice, and human rights.”
Original TikTok post
Crucially, the video carried a label stating “Contains AI-generated media.” This strongly indicated that the clip was likely created using generative AI. According to TikTok’s guidelines, the platform automatically applies this label to content it identifies as completely generated or significantly edited with AI.
We also found similar videos on the account, which carried the same label. This further confirmed that the viral clip was likely created using synthetic AI media.
Soch Fact Check then tested the video through Sightengine, which is an AI-powered content analysis platform that helps detect, filter, and moderate images and videos. It uses machine learning to identify deepfakes and AI-generated media.
Sightengine results
The analysis by Sightengine indicates that the system is not fully certain whether the video is AI-generated, but it detects a moderate likelihood of generative AI involvement. Overall, the model assigned a 59% probability that the video is AI-generated. Within this score, the system attributes 55% of the likelihood to diffusion-based models, which are a common method used to generate AI images and videos. The pattern detected in the clip shows the closest similarity to outputs associated with OpenAI’s Sora, although the confidence level is moderate rather than definitive.
Though the results are not conclusive evidence, they support the broader conclusion that the video may contain AI-generated elements, particularly from diffusion-based generation techniques.
The same analysis also detects a 17% probability of face manipulation, suggesting some visual patterns resemble deepfake-style alterations. Other generative models such as Veo, Kling, MidJourney, Pika, Runway, and Wan show little to no similarity in the analysed frames. Overall, the results suggest that the video may contain AI-generated elements, particularly from diffusion-based generation techniques.
We also analysed the video using DeepFake-O-Meter, which analysed it using multiple AI-based detection models. The result for the video is as follows:
DeepFake-O-Meter results
We first used the AVSRDD (2025) model, which is an AVSR-based audio and visual deepfake detection method that leverages speech correlation. The model uses dual-branch encoders for audio and video to support independent detection of each modality. It rated the video 100% fake.
The video was also analysed through the WAV2LIP-STA (2022) detection model, which is designed to catch lip-sync based deepfakes where the mouth movements don’t quite match the speech. It gave an 94.3% rating of the clip being AI-generated.
Virality
The viral clip was shared here, here, here, here, here, and here on Facebook. Archived here, here, here, here, here, and here.
On Instagram, it was shared here, here, and here. Archived here, here, and here.
Conclusion: The viral clip showing a female Iranian military officer recording a video of the country’s fighter jets is AI-generated.
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