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India Today
a day ago
- Entertainment
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Fact Check: NOT Israeli woman crying over her destroyed house, this video is from Syria
Parts of Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel, suffered some serious damage from Iranian missiles, which struck several high-rise buildings. A video of a woman crying in the midst of rubble is now going clip featured the Israeli flag, and was shared with captions like: "She is crying because she lost her home. My satisfaction level is..." implying she is an Israeli woman who lost her home amid the military India Today Fact Check, however, found that the video is not from Israel but from Syria. It also predates the present Iran-Israel PROBEListening to the woman in the viral video speak immediately makes it clear that the video is from Syria. She can be heard saying in English, "I am back to my home, my home is in Darayya, the suburbs of Damascus." Damascus is the capital of reverse-searching keyframes from the viral video led us to the original clip, posted by professional Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini on March 14, three months before the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran began."I'm my home doesn't stand.. I want to share what I feel with you because this is not just about me, this is what many Syrians are going through right pain and trauma. This is the home I grew up in, drew my dreams of becoming the best woman I could be, and even washed dad's car with him in the neighbourhood. Yes, my home is just rubble, but those memories will always give me the strength to move forward," read Mardini's caption, making it obvious that the video is not from Israel but from an NDTV report, Mardini left war-torn Syria in 2015, when she was 17, and went on to compete in the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. Another report from Al Arabiya, published on March 28, featured her homecoming after almost a decade. Mardini's return marked a full-circle moment for the 27-year-old, whose dramatic escape from the war was documented in the Netflix film 'The Swimmers'.Thus, it is abundantly clear that a video from Syria was falsely shared as a video from InMust Watch Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
India Today
2 days ago
- Politics
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Fact Check: Video of Iran lawmakers burning US flag inside parliament is from 2018
As the tension between Iran and Israel mounts with each passing day, the United States has also signalled that it may enter the fray. President Donald Trump stated that the US military "may or may not" join Israeli forces to attack Iran. In the midst of all this, several images and a video, allegedly from the Iranian Parliament, have been circulating on social visuals show Iranian lawmakers burning a US flag inside Parliament. "Breaking: In Iranian Parliament, MPs burn the American flag while chanting 'Death to America,' and threaten to use a nuclear bomb against the American homeland," said posts featuring these photos and the video. India Today Fact Check found that the video is more than seven years old and is unrelated to the present PROBEUsing Google Lens, we found the same clip uploaded to the YouTube channel of Bloomberg News on May 9, 2018. The video was titled: 'Death to America: Iranian lawmakers burn US flag to protest Trump's nuclear deal exit.' The video report mentioned that the protest took place inside the Iranian Parliament, a day after Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal. Reportedly, the placard featuring the US flag that Iranian lawmakers burnt was a representation of their nuclear agreement with found a longer version of the same clip on the Associated Press's official YouTube channel, where the phrase 'Death to America' appeared in Persian beneath the flag. Outlets like the BBC and CNN also reported this incident. Nowhere, however, did any report mention Iranian lawmakers threatening to use a nuclear bomb against the American homeland, as claimed in the viral posts. On May 8, 2018, during his first presidential tenure, Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. This deal was signed in July 2015 during Barack Obama's presidency. Trump called this deal "deeply flawed," arguing that it gave Iran sanctions relief without permanently dismantling its nuclear it's clear that the video making the rounds right now is seven years old and not related to the present conflict by any InMust Watch Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
India Today
2 days ago
- Politics
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Fact Check: Videos of Iranian women 'defying' the regime amid ongoing conflict are misleading
As Israel and Iran continued exchanging strikes for the seventh day, several videos surfaced online claiming that women in Iran were celebrating Israeli attacks on the country, a form of defiance against the theocratic government. Let's debunk two such protest?A video allegedly showing an Iranian woman dancing in the rain surfaced online. Sharing this video, an X user wrote, 'An Iranian woman sends a message to the Islamic regime: 'We will dance on your grave with all our hearts. We now have joy and hope for the future. The murderers of Iran's children and women will fall. The Islamic regime will perish.'advertisement The viral video was originally shared by Tamta Sabelashvili, a Georgian model and influencer, on her Instagram account on June 5, 2024. The model has listed her location as Strasbourg, France, on her Facebook account. She has also shared several photos and videos of the city on Instagram, with captions written in Georgian. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tamta Sabelashvili (@tatasb_9)Refuting the viral claim, she shared a screenshot of the community note attached to the post, which said that she was not Iranian and that the video was not recent. Additionally, we found the viral video posted on her TikTok account in July also confirmed to India Today Fact Check that she is Georgian, and not Iranian. She said she has no idea why her video is being shared with such removing hijabs?advertisementAnother such video allegedly showed several Iranian women removing their hijabs in a school. Sharing this video, an X user wrote, 'Iranian girls remove their hijabs, take over their school, and chant, 'Death to the dictator and the Islamic regime'.'Reverse image-searching keyframes from the viral video led us to the same video in a compilation of Iranian student protest clips uploaded to YouTube on October 4, 2022. This indicates that the viral video is neither recent nor related to the ongoing Iran-Israel also found several 2022 news reports containing the screengrabs from the viral video. As per a report, the clip showed schoolgirls waving their headscarves in the air against the Iranian regime after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, who was detained by Iran's morality police on September 13, 2022, in Tehran for allegedly violating the country's mandatory hijab law. She died in the hospital three days later, sparking widespread outrage and did not find any credible media reports indicating widespread mass protests by Iranian women amid the Israel-Iran it's clear that these videos are not related to the present Iran-Israel InMust Watch Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
India Today
3 days ago
- Politics
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Fact Check: Iran state TV was struck by Israel. But did its anchor say Allah will protect her just before?
Sahar Emami, a news anchor at Iranian state broadcaster IRIB, was delivering the news live on Monday — as she usually did — when her world came crashing down, quite literally. There were loud booms, and the studio appeared to fill with smoke, dust, and debris. An Israeli airstrike had hit the IRIB headquarters in 40, who has been working with Iranian state television since 2008, instantly went viral on social media, with many dubbing her Iran's lioness and a true the viral video of Emani's Farsi broadcast is now being shared with English subtitles that read, 'We will not cower. By truth, we will not turn away. Because we have Allah to protect us! With Allah, no bomb can reach us.' Those sharing this subtitled version of the video pointed out the apparent irony of the studio being struck the moment Emani says Allah would protect her from Israeli bombs. India Today Fact Check, however, found that the subtitles completely mistranslated what she was saying. In the actual video, Emani was saying that the sound being heard in her studio is the sound of aggression against her country and the PROBEUsing keyword search, we found the viral video on the official account of Time magazine. This version of the video had English subtitles which read, 'The sound you heard, it is the sound of aggression against the homeland. The sound of aggression against truth and righteousness. What you observed, the sound you heard, the dusty atmosphere of the studio'. At this exact moment, there was a loud explosion and the anchor strike cuts off Iran's state TV during live broadcast as studio fills with dusthttps:// TIME (@TIME) June 16, 2025advertisementThe Associated Press also reported the same English translation of the video in its description of the proves that the subtitles in the viral video bear no resemblance to what was actually being IRIB headquarters in Tehran's District 3 was attacked by Israel on June 16. The broadcast was cut off for a brief period and resumed later. According to the American non-profit, the Committee to Protect Journalists, one journalist and one other worker were killed in this to Al Jazeera following the attack, Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei called it a 'wicked act' and a war crime. IRIB head Peyman Jebelli said the channel was attacked because the Iranian media was 'precisely targeting the depth of the enemy's media strategy'.Tune InMust Watch Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
India Today
6 days ago
- Politics
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Fact Check: NOT Iranians celebrating Israel's attack by dancing! This video is old
In response to Israel's Operation Rising Lion, which reportedly targeted Iran's nuclear facilities and top military officials, Tehran launched a wave of attacks on June 15 under Operation True Promise 3, killing at least 10 this, a video allegedly showed Iranians celebrating Israel's attack on its regime by taking to the streets was widely shared online. The video shot inside a tunnel showed people singing and dancing together as vehicles stood in long queues. The text inside the video read: 'Day 3 of war. Iranians dancing.' advertisementSharing a screenshot from this video, one person wrote, 'Iranians stuck in traffic on their way to Northern Iran start singing and dancing inside a tunnel to celebrate Israeli attacks on the Islamic Regime. Under the Islamic Regime, Iranians are prohibited from publicly dancing, singing, and being joyous.' India Today Fact Check, however, found that this video is from September 2023 and has nothing to do with the ongoing Israel-Iran ProbeReverse-searching keyframes from the viral clip led us to an extended version of it, shared on an Instagram post on September 12, 2023. Its description, in Persian, stated that people in Iran remained happy even during traffic, adding that heavy traffic had been reported on Iran's Chalus Road. It further credited the viral clip to an Instagram account named 'motor23__' advertisement View this post on Instagram A post shared by // (@iran_beautiful_ir)We then found the same video shared by the aforementioned Instagram account on September 9, 2023. The post contained a hashtag for Chalus. This account had shared another similar video well, showing people dancing in the same tunnel on September 9, 2023. The account's bio mentioned that its owner is from Qazvin, a province in videos were shared by many on social media at the time, mentioning that it is from the Chalus tunnel of Iran. then found a YouTube video of the Chalus tunnel, or the Kandovan Tunnel on the Chalus Road in Iran — a popular route connecting Karaj and Tehran to Chalus on the Caspian Sea. The tunnel in this YouTube video appears to be the same as that seen in the viral clip. It is noteworthy that contrary to the claim, videos from Tehran showed people celebrating Iran's retaliatory missile attack on Israel by waving flags and chanting slogans on the streets is thus, clear that a 2023 video of Iranians dancing in a tunnel amid traffic was falsely linked to the ongoing Israel-Iran Watch Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
