Claim: A group of pictures show the crash site of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Fact: Four of the five images are actually from May 2019 and unrelated to the Raisi helicopter crash. On 20 May 2024, X (formerly Twitter) user @ShaykhSulaiman shared (archive) four pictures, in a […]
Claim: Live CCTV footage purportedly shows the Iran President’s helicopter crash. Fact: The original video is from 2022 when a helicopter crashed in a jungle in Panama. It is unrelated to Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter crash. On 24 May 2024, a user on X (formerly Twitter) posted a video with the caption, “Helicopter crash: Accident or […]
Claim: The helicopter of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was “shot out of [the] sky by a space laser”, killing him and Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, as well as other high-ranking officials. An accompanying image shows the aircraft ablaze over a mountainous area. Fact: There’s no evidence that Raisi’s helicopter was “shot out of […]