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: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi arrives safely in Tabriz amid news that his helicopter has crashed, according to an Iranian news agency. Fact: On 20 May Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi was confirmed dead hours after his helicopter crashed in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. On 19 May, Threads user @starterpakistan claimed (archived) that “Mehr News Agency […]