"When Iran’s missiles began flying on February 28, 2026, a second war was launched simultaneously, fought entirely with fabricated images, recycled videos, and outright lies. Within hours of the US-Israel strikes on Iran, Iranian state media flooded social platforms with battlefield “victories” that never happened, casualties that were invented, and dramatic footage pulled from video games in a coordinated disinformation operation on a scale that was simply staggering."
"Since the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, NewsGuard, the news rating organization that monitors media credibility, identified 18 war-related claims by Iranian sources that were provably false. In the two weeks before the US-Israel strikes, NewsGuard had flagged just five false claims from Iranian outlets. The volume of lies tripled almost overnight." FULL STORY at above link.