Claim: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India stands with Israel in the US-Israel war with Iran.
Fact: The video is digitally manipulated.
On 13 March, a Facebook user posted a video in which the Indian premier can be seen as saying that India is on Israel’s side amid the ongoing war between Iran and US-Israel and that both the countries have the same goal.
The video shows Modi saying:
[Translated from Hindi to English: Someone asked me where India stands in the Iran war. On the matter of India, no one should doubt that we are standing with Israel. The goal of Israel and India is the same. Israel wants to be Greater Israel and India wants to become Akhand Bharat (Undivided India). If terrorist countries like Iran fall only then will India get an opportunity to defeat Pakistan. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka will become [a part of] Undivided India without a war. Our main goal is Pakistan and without the destruction of Iran this goal cannot turn into a reality. Iran will have to face the reality of its terrorism.]
The video includes, what looks like a cropped logo of Indian news agency, ANI (Asian News International) on the top-right and of “Sindhi Media News” on the top-left corner of the page.
The caption accompanying the reel, which is in Sindhi, states
Translation: Listen to what these Jews want! It seems that India is next after America and Israel…If India even touches Iran, Iran will hit it there too.
Pakistan mediates ceasefire, hosts peace talks
Towards the end of the US-Israel war against Iran that started on 28 February and lasted over five weeks, US President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened the Islamic Republic with destruction.
Pakistan hosted high-level negotiations, the “Islamabad Talks,” between the US and Iran in the federal capital on 10 and 11 April 2026, after brokering a two-week ceasefire. The development came after Rapid Response 47, the official account for White House’s urgent statements, shared US President Donald Trump’s statement on 8 April 2026. Trump openly credited Pakistan for being a mediator for the ceasefire.
The Iranian delegation, composed of the Speaker of the Iranian Consultative Assembly Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and FM Araghchi, arrived during the early hours of 11 April 2026. The US delegation, including US Vice President JD Vance, US Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, also arrived later that day.
The Islamabad Talks then ended after 21 hours without reaching a deal. Before leaving for the US, VP Vance conducted a press briefing on the morning of 12 April 2026 and announced, “We have not reached an agreement, and I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America.”
However, on 15 April 2026, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned during a presser that the next round of talks will likely be held in the “same place as before,” hinting US delegation’s another trip to Islamabad. Following the update, the Red Zone area of Islamabad was sealed, along with several other routes for security purposes.
Vance was expected to arrive with his delegation on 22 April 2026 but the White House abruptly changed plans. On the other hand, the Iranian delegation also delayed its decision on participation.
After a lot of back and forth, the Iranian delegation, led by foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, arrived on the night of 24 April 2026. They arrived after Leavitt confirmed Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff’s participation from the US. However, Trump canceled the US envoy’s trip at the last minute, saying that they would “be wasting too much time.”
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check first noted the audio does not align with Modi’s lip movements.
Soch Fact Check looked for the original video and found it posted on the verified YouTube channel of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It shows the Indian premier speaking at the NXT Summit, a global event held in New Delhi, India during 12-14 March 2026. We went through the 33 minutes and 19 second-long speech and did not find any mention of the US, Israel, Iran or Pakistan.
We also ran the video through Global Online Deepfake Detection System (GODDS), a tool developed by Northwestern University’s Security & AI Lab (NSAIL) that uses a combination of various models along with human analysis to provide a holistic summary of the results.
GODDS used 22 deepfake detection algorithms for the visual content and 70 for the audio component. Two trained analysts also examined the clip.
All predictive models for the visual and audio content said the video “may be artificially manipulated”:
- The video is likely to be fake with a probability above 0.5, according to 6 of the 22 predictive models. It is likely to be fake with a probability below 0.5, according to the 16 other predictive models.
- The audio is likely to be fake with a probability above 0.5, according to 54 of the 70 predictive models. It is likely to be fake with a probability below 0.5, according to the 16 remaining predictive models.
According to the human analysts, the video contains “several indicators” that show it may be artificially manipulated via AI.
A screenshot of the result from GODDS.
According to the analysts, “Throughout the video, the subject appears to have no
teeth when speaking.” Modi appears to be wearing
glasses; however, the glasses appear to blur and conjoin his face while speaking, they added.
They further stated that, “At 0:14, the subject’s finger overlaps with his face and turns transparent, appearing unnatural. The subject’s voice seems to lack natural tonal and cadence variations characteristic of human voices.”
We also used DeepFake-O-Meter to check whether the video is digitally manipulated or not.
A screenshot of the result from Hive Moderation.
As per the detectors:
- AVSRDD (2025) gave a 99.9% result for the video being fake. It stands for Audio-Visual Speech Representation Deepfake Detection. This detector checks if the subject is real by checking the coordination between their voice and lip movement.
- TALL (2023) showed a result of 89.4%. It stands for Temporal-Aware Layout Learning. This one checks the movement and structure of the subject.
- WAV2LIP-STA (2022) gave a result of 75.9%. It is a Lip-Sync fraud detector.
- SBI (2022) gave 69.5%. It stands for Self-Blended Images. This detector is like a digital magnifying glass.
- LSDA (2022) showed 56%. It stands for Latent Space Data Augmentation. This one can detect the tiny digital traces in a video.
We also ran the video through an AI detection tool, Hive Moderation and found it to have an 87.6% likelihood of having AI-generated speech.
Screenshot of the video result from Hive Moderation
Moreover, the Indian government’s Press Information Bureau’s fact-checking page also posted a clarification on X saying the viral video is digitally manipulated.
Based on a comparison with the original version and results from online AI-detection tools, Soch Fact Check concludes that the viral video is digitally manipulated.
Virality
On Facebook, the viral video can be seen here and here.
It can be seen here on Instagram, here and here on X.
On TikTok it can be seen here.
Conclusion: A video of the Indian PM Narendra Modi calling for Iran’s destruction is digitally manipulated.
Background image in cover photo: Reuters
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