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Iran State Media Push AI Video Showing Missile Hitting Statue of Liberty

The state-linked clip signals Tehran’s information offensive during a tense standoff.

Overview

  • Iranian outlets tied to the state released a short AI video called One Vengeance for All that ends with a missile striking a reimagined Statue of Liberty.
  • The montage frames the United States as a source of global harm by stitching scenes that reference Native American dispossession, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Gaza, Yemen and Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
  • IRIB and Fars promoted the clip through IRGC channels, and Russian outlet RT amplified it to international audiences in a coordinated propaganda push.
  • The video features Qasem Soleimani and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in its build‑up, with some reports in the coverage asserting Khamenei was killed on Feb. 28, a claim that other reporting disputes, and it cites contested claims about a deadly strike on a school in Minab.
  • Coverage links the release to a wider Iran–US–Israel confrontation, with some outlets also reporting new US force movements and saying Tehran rejected a 15‑point US proposal, highlighting how AI visuals are being used to threaten, shape public opinion and complicate diplomacy.