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 Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that if Pakistan and Iraq do not take Iran’s warnings seriously, they will hit them again. Fact: The statement has been falsely attributed to the Iranian foreign minister. A similar statement was issued by the Defence Minister of Iran, Brigadier General Mohammadreza Ashtiani who said that Iran […]
Claim: Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Iran attacked Israeli terrorists in Pakistan. Fact: The claim is false. While speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Iran’s FM said that Iran attacked the Jaish al-Adl which is an Iranian terrorist group. On 17 January 2024, RTE Urdu on X (formerly Twitter) posted an image […]