Claim: An image from Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral shows his body laid inside a casket. Fact: The image is AI-generated. A day after the beginning of his public funeral proceedings, a Facebook account named Binyamin Shahzad shared a picture of the body of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lying […]
Claim: An image shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s mother embracing Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir. Fact: The image is likely AI-generated. On 25 June 2026, a Facebook account named Javed Iqbal shared a picture of an elderly woman embracing Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir with Iranian […]
Claim: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed a fictitious copy of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), likely as a public relations move, rather than the actual one that has the signatures of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian and US President Donald Trump. Fact: The viral posts include visuals of the Islamabad MoU at different stages. […]
Claim: A video shows an attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house by Iran, which “fired seven drones and hypersonic missiles”, in March 2026. Fact: The video actually shows the 9/11 attacks. On 9 March 2026, Facebook page ‘Doctor ilyas’ posted (archive) a video showing a building being struck by an aircraft, causing a […]
Claim: Multiple visuals show the dead body of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed by the US-Israel joint airstrikes on the Islamic Republic on 28 February 2026. Fact: None of the images are authentic. On 1 March 2026, visuals emerged on social media allegedly showing the body of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei […]
Claim: A viral image circulating online claims to show a hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, burning after it was hit by an Iranian missile. Fact: The image is AI-generated and does not document a real missile strike or a verified incident. On 2 March 2026, Facebook user Qazi Wajid shared an image showing a […]