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Iranian “missile city” video was generated by AI
Masrawy’s verification team found that a widely circulated video attributed to the Revolutionary Guard and showing dozens of missiles inside an underground facility was generated by artificial intelligence, although Iran did unveil a new missile city on November 10.
A video that spread widely on social media in recent days, showing dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles lined up inside an underground military facility in Iran, was generated using artificial intelligence, Masrawy’s Egyptian verification team found.
Social media accounts circulated the video claiming that it had been released by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as part of its announcement of a new underground “missile city,” where missile production would be moved in preparation for future attacks.
This part of the video shows tightly packed rows of missiles and personnel moving among them, with one missile circled in red. Masrawy found visually inconsistent errors indicating that the video was generated by artificial intelligence, including several people suddenly splitting into two and missiles appearing with two warheads, one at each end, instead of the usual design featuring a warhead and a base.
No trace in official sources
The verification team said a reverse-image search using Google Lens led to a media website that published the video on November 11 under a headline about Iran revealing an “underground weapons arsenal.” However, the team found no evidence that the video came from any official Iranian body or that the Revolutionary Guard had published it as part of its announcement about the missile city.
The video’s circulation coincided with the Revolutionary Guard’s Aerospace Force actually unveiling a new underground missile city on November 10, in the presence of Major General Ali Abdollahi, chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, and Brigadier General Majid Mousavi, commander of the Aerospace Force, Tasnim reported.
Photos and a video published by Tasnim of the tour showed missiles with shapes different from those in the circulated video, and the official tour video did not include any of its scenes. Iran said the facility contains ballistic and cruise missiles and their launch platforms, while its location and size could not be independently verified.
War of misleading images
This comes amid a wave of misleading content linked to the war on Iran. Earlier this month, Deutsche Welle’s verification team identified artificial-intelligence-generated videos and older footage being recirculated as scenes from the confrontation.
Video: social media. Cover image and photo: Tasnim. Sources: Masrawy, Tasnim, Deutsche Welle
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