Misinformation about Iran’s missile attack on bases housing US troops in Iraq spread quickly. Here are a few examples

Misinformation also came from other sources, like this image shared by Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency:

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The photo is not from overnight, but a handout provided by an Iranian news site from July 18, 2017, as Google reverse image search shows. It also features in this New York Times article.

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Another striking photo appears to show Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei personally supervising the strike.

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But the picture looks very much like a photoshopped version of a photo which was taken, according to the Office of the Supreme Leader’s website, during the Revolutionary Guard’s 2014 Aerospace Force Exhibition.

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Other outdated photos are still on Twitter, like this one which purportedly shows the Al Asad Air Base in flames after being hit:

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The picture is actually from Gaza, and it shows an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on November 15, 2019.

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Immediately after the strike, another picture purporting to show a rocket targeting a base near Erbil made the rounds. Again, it’s from last year and from an Israeli strike in Syria as a reverse image search shows.

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This photo was shared by a fake news outlet on Twitter to illustrate last night’s airstrikes. The picture is of Iranian strikes in eastern Syria targeting militants.

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Besides fake images, old videos were also shared to purportedly show Iranian missiles striking in Iraq.

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This video, still online, was actually shot in 2015 in Luhansk, Ukraine, as this YouTube link shows.

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Another video — shared by a parody Robert De Niro account among others and still on Twitter — is from May 2019 and it shows Qatar Emir land forces, according to Military.com.

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Former CIA Cindy Otis and other disinformation experts highlighted some of the misinformation in Twitter threads.

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