video Shared by Xpreviously claimed on Twitter that Iranian missiles were evading US anti-aircraft attacks and shocks in Erbil, Iraq.

Crazy footage, Iranian ballistic missile evades US air defenses and hits target in Erbil.
A few years ago, people laughed at missiles and drones. Now they have proven it in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Ukur. pic.twitter.com/uwvYpQdt7U

— Rana (@ranaiftekhar) January 16, 2024

Verdict: Misleading

This incident is from 2022 and took place in Baghdad, not Erbil.

Fact check:

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said it had fired a missile into Iraq's Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, targeting a facility it described as an Israeli “spy headquarters.” Reuters. The newspaper also said that the Revolutionary Guards had targeted the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Syria with missiles.

Social media users have published footage of the air defense system C-RAM firing before the missile hits. “Crazy footage, Iranian ballistic missile evades US air defenses and hits target in Erbil,” one user wrote.

However, this is misleading. After doing a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found that the video was not filmed during the recent strikes, but rather from January 2022. The video was posted on YouTube with the title “C-RAM responds to missile attack on US embassy in Baghdad Green.” zone. “

“Video footage shows the C-RAM system reacting to a rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone,” the video's description reads in part. (Did Pope Francis say that Jesus was born during the census by King David?)

According to reports, in January 2022, four rockets fired by a group believed to be pro-Iranian targeted the US embassy. new york times. “A reprehensible attack of this type is not only an attack on diplomatic facilities, but an attack on the sovereignty of Iraq itself,” the embassy said in a statement about X at the time, according to the report.