Amid a violent military escalation, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei was killed in a joint attack by the United States and Israel. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards reportedly launched attacks on US military bases in the Middle East and Israeli military facilities in Tel Aviv in retaliation.
Videos of explosions, bombings, and air strikes flood social media. Many of these are from ongoing conflicts, but some are old and unrelated. Some are generated by AI. This article examines four such videos.
Mexico not Israel
this video It claims to show an Iranian missile attack on an Israeli air base. In the footage, huge flames and black smoke can be seen filling the sky. While sharing videos, User X wrote:“This is a video about the destruction of Israel that no media channel, national or international, should ever air.”
A quick reverse search of the video revealed the following: some news reports Featuring viral clips from January 2025. This makes it clear that this video is old and has nothing to do with the current crisis.
According to mirror report Footage from the time showed a massive fire breaking out at a casino in Culian, Mexico.
from bagdad
a video The video, which featured multiple clips of explosions, fires and airstrikes, had the caption: “Iran’s anger has not cooled. It has launched its most dangerous missile yet.”
What we found is exactly the same video Shared by X user on March 21, 2023. This clearly means that the video is old and unrelated to the ongoing conflict. A 2023 post states that it is an edited video of the 2003 US attack on Baghdad.
Then I found a YouTube channel called . Phoenix ReNasCor On February 9, 2021, the company posted a video showing the 2003 US bombing of Baghdad, Iraq. The video included clips from the viral footage, along with several other clips.
AI is not real
Neither of these videos depict the actual incident. These are generated using AI. The Veo watermark appears in the bottom right corner of one of your videos. Veo is a video generation AI tool by Google.
When I reverse searched frames from other videos, old version Contains Sora’s watermark. Sora is OpenAI’s premier generative video model.
It is therefore clear that all four videos circulating online during the ongoing clashes have nothing to do with the actual events.
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