‘Death to America’ Slogans Raised in Iran Parliament Amid Israel-Hamas War? No!

The video dates back to January 2020 and is unrelated to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

Fact-Check | The video dates back to 2020 and is being shared with a misleading context.

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A video purportedly from Cable News Network (CNN) which shows Iranian lawmakers raising "death to America" slogans is being shared on the internet with users linking it to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Who all shared it?: Media organisation Times Now published a report with a similar claim stating that the chants against Israel and America were raised amid Palestinian group Hamas' attack on Tel Aviv.

• Several X (formerly Twitter) subscribers, too, shared the video on their respective accounts (archive here and here).

An archive of the post can be seen here.

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(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

What is the truth?: The video dates back to January 2020 and is unrelated to the ongoing war.

• It shows Iranian lawmakers raising anti-America slogans after the killing of Iranian military officer named Qasem Soleimani.

How did we find that out?: We performed a Google Lens search on the keyframes of the video and came across a few older versions of the same video, which dated back to January 2020.

We found that the same video has been online since at least 2020.

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• Following this, we performed a keyword search and came across a video with similar visuals uploaded on the official YouTube channel of CNN.

• It was uploaded on 5 January 2020 and showed lawmakers chanting 'death to America' in the Iranian parliament after the killing of military officer Qasem Soleimani.

• The news bulletin also showed Iran's military advisor to the supreme leader, who said that the response to the United States will be military.

News reports on Soleimani's death: According to New York Times, Iran's top security and intelligence commander, Major General Qasem Soleimani, was killed along with several officials from Iraqi militias.

• The attack was carried out by an American aircraft that fired missiles into a convoy carrying Soleimani and others.

• The commander was said to be the architect of significant operations carried by the Iranian intelligence and military forces over the past two decades.

• The country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reportedly called for public mourning for three days and then retaliation.

The report was published on 2 January 2020.

(Source: The New York Times/Screenshot)

Conclusion: It is clear that an old and unrelated video is being shared on the internet with users falsely linking it to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

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