Fake Iranian Missile Photos

That four-missile image you may have seen on the front page of the LA Times or NYTimes.com (and many other news sites) was a fake.

By
Scott Lamb
by Scott Lamb

BuzzFeed, VP of International

Compare the two pictures below and the Photoshop work becomes clear. The four-missile image was originally released to the press by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, but was later replaced with the less scary three-missile version.

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