Videos generated by AI do not show that Iran will relocate nuclear facilities before we attack

Israel and Iran reached a ceasefire in June 2025 as they took part in the Middle Eastern conflict after a 12-day violent missile exchange. Videos circulating on Ethiopia's Facebook claim that Iran's nuclear facilities have been relocated before the US airstrikes. However, these videos were generated using artificial intelligence (AI).

The Facebook post, released in the video on June 23, 2025, includes Amharac's text overlay.

“Iran claims everything is safe,” adds a text overlay at the bottom of the video.

Screenshots of fake posts taken on June 25th, 2025

The post, which has been shared more than 210 times, includes eight-second footage showing what appears to be dozens of nuclear warheads with Iranian flags in its underground facility.

This post was shared on Facebook on June 24, 2025. The same account repeatedly complained on another video a day ago.

“Iran moved its uranium enrichment facility elsewhere 24 hours before the US attack,” the Amhara post dated June 23, 2025, has been shared more than 180 times and reads the date.

It includes a 10-second video that appears to show the large container being transported by a vehicle while people are watching from the roadside.

“In this battle, Islamic Iran, the Islamic Republic, could destroy Israel in a few hours or perhaps days,” the man's voice in Arabic says.

Our Strike

Israel began attacking Iran on June 13, 2025, attacking nuclear and military facilities and residential areas, sparking a wave of Iranian missile attacks against Israel that continued until the ceasefire took effect on June 24, 2025.

On June 22, 2025, the US attacked three important Iranian nuclear facilities, including Ford's underground uranium enrichment facility, using bombs that destroy large bunkers. This was followed by an Iranian missile strike at Al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar, the largest US military facility in the Middle East (archived here).

Whether Iran had driven enriched uranium before the US attack and whether these caused serious damage after reports showed that no major elements were destroyed and that Iran's nuclear program had returned at best a few months (archived here).

However, videos were generated with AI showing Iran's nuclear facilities being moved to other sites.

AI-generated clips

The first indication that a video was artificially created is some glitches typical of AI tools.

For example, in the first video, there is a problem with the rendering of nuclear missiles. There is no head, only a tail, and others have only a head. For some, the design simply appears to be broken in the middle and partially suspended in the air.

The texture of the concrete wall changes as the camera moves.

In the second video, the movement of the vehicle wheels is inconsistent. At some point, the vehicle appears static and the vehicle continues to move. Furthermore, the movements of the hands of people who saw them grabbing photos along the roadside look unnaturally stiff and unrealistic.

AFP Fact Check conducted reverse image searches on keyframes for both videos using the video verification tool Invid-Weverify.

Search results established that the first clip with higher resolution was published on YouTube on June 19, 2025 (archived here).

The YouTube version has a clear “Veo” watermark in the bottom right corner. The watermark is cut out in Facebook posts.

Google's new AI-driven video creation tool, VEO, allows users to generate realistic looking videos, currently up to 8 seconds long. This is the same as the clip (archived here).

Similarly, the search results for the second video revealed that AI was generated using another program called Invideo. This tool helps users create videos up to 10 seconds (archived here).

This video was originally published on the Facebook page “Ayoub Ennachat” on June 4th, 2025. This was more than two weeks before the US attacked at Iran's nuclear facility (archived here).

Reviews on the page show that AI made with Invideo regularly shares generated videos.

The original video, which has been shared over 7,500 times, comes with a 10-second clip with a visible “Invideo AI” watermark in the top right corner. The text accompanying the video also mentions “Invideo.”

In the version shared with false claims on Facebook, the “Invideo” watermark is covered with an Iranian flag.

Additionally, the original video features wind power and background sounds of passing vehicles.

In false claims, the audio was replaced by a man who spoke in Arabic about his battle with Iran with Israel.