Thursday, July 10, 2008

Iranian Missile Test Photos Make a Comeback

This photo was published yesterday, July 9, 2008, on the official Iranian Republic News Agency website announcing successful missile tests:

Here is the photo they included with their article yesterday July 9, 2008.

This photo was also published in November 2006.

This is the same photo that was published in the WaPo in November 2006.

This photo was published on November 6, 2006--

This was posted in the Epoch Times on Nov. 6, 2006.

This was published on November 3, 2006.
One less missile?

This was published on November 3, 2006 on Payvand News.

This was published in March 2007:

This article was published in March 2007.
Here is another look at it.

5 missiles?

Here's another photo taken from the same location and posted on the internet in October 2007.

Charles Johnson and The New York Times discovered yesterday that the photos from the test were photoshopped.

Kamangir has more.

Suitably Flip has comparisons.

Previously:
Iran Test Fires Long Range Missiles ...Update: Bogus Pictures

UPDATE: Guess what?
Iranian Fars News reported that the regime shot off more missiles today:

...More of the same missiles!
They posted the same photos again.

10 comments:

  1. What's up with all the fake photos all of a sudden. Fake tornados, fake iranian missiles... Geez

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  2. Anonymous11:25 AM

    LOLOLOLOLOL This is hilarious. Stoopid Iranians. Stoopider News Media.

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  3. Anonymous11:42 AM

    Dude,
    You post the best stuff on the Mullahcracy of Iran.

    Someday when my homeland is free, you've got to come over for a visit. We'll be happy to have you.

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  4. What's with the extra poofy smudges around some of the fauxissles? Are they adding "excitement" to it? "Zoom-zoom" streaking, like in a cartoon?

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  5. Anonymous2:43 PM

    It appears from the series of photos that the second one from the left was fired later than all the others but the bottom picture perspective seems like it would be hard for such a late shot to catch up with all the others

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  6. Anonymous3:46 PM

    Now... lets put this Khomeinist propaganda into perspective.

    1) This regime broke all international laws, raided our embassy - an act of war - and held American hostages 444 days.

    2) They're enriching uranium, developing a nuclear bomb.

    3) They've lied repeatedly to Europe and the UN, the world.

    4) They supported terrorist Hezbollah, Hamas, and Syria murdering innocent Lebanese and Israeli citizens for decades.

    5) They supported asassinations around the world, including bombings of Jews, Americans, their own people from Europe to Israel, Argentina and Lebanon.

    6) They committed an act of war against the UK kidnapping their soldiers

    7) They've committed an act of war against American troops and Iraqi troops and sponsored the murder of more innocent civilians in Iraq.

    This is their legacy and present actions.

    ----

    Now, the leftist moonbats, the appeasers, the doomsayers, the naysayers, the vote for losing crowd, the biased media that said all was lost, quagmire, and the Democrats that spewed hatred of our troops, our military, our President, and spit on our country, now want us to trust who?

    They want us to trust an inexperienced Commie Seeking candidate? A candidate supported by commie? A Marxist, that even failed as a Community organizer? That allowed a criminal like Rezko bilk millions from our government? That allowed someone with no knowledge of building renovation and construction receive millions for the Obama plan? And now Chi-town poor are worse today than they were before in SouthSide?

    This is all the Democrats can do?

    Trust the above candidate? The candidate that is committed to losing a war? A man that was committed for 20 years to a bunch of lies and hatred undre the Very UnReverand Wright? A man that sought out Marxist and Communist for his election? A man that allowed terrorist both internal and external to support his election?

    Disgusting Democrats. We the People are supposed to support a democrat that did all the above to talk to the crazed lunatics in Iran? So, we support one liar supported by domestic terrorist to talk to a bunch of external terrorist liars?

    Wow, what a great plan Democrats.

    Way to throw our entire country under the bus. WTG David Axelrod! Your Mom that worked for a Communist leaning paper must be truly proud of you today!

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  7. Anonymous4:08 PM

    The "extra poofy smudges" look like the stabilizing thrusters that fire briefly after launch to either adjust the trajectory, or impart a spin on the rocket, depending on the particular model.

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  8. Anonymous5:45 PM

    The high tech American military could clear this up. We have AWACS and Aegis cruisers in the Persian Gulf. And we probably have Patriot or other anti-missile systems over there. They would know exactly what the capabilities of these missiles are from their flights, if...if they were launched at all.

    Oh, don't forget the satellite observations.

    And why haven't there been any reports of where the missiles came down?

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  9. Ha, that is very good.

    Although, if they were launched and photographed from the same positions, wouldn't they look pretty similar?

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  10. the silly thing is.... they claim to have thousands of missiles, but I'm pretty sure that they can't hide them from the spy satellites very well... and a dozen or so submarine launched cruise missiles from the U.S Navy carrying some cluster munitions could eliminate them before they were ever launched... I'm just saying.

    A preemptive surgical strike tomorrow to take them out as a way of saying "Oh yeah?.... what missiles? We don't see any missiles" would take the wind out of their sails pretty fast. Without their missiles, really, what do they have left? some mini-speedboats? and some old Russian submarines?

    Call it USA 1 Iran 0 before the first few minutes.... But that would take balls....

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