Fact Check: NOT Iranians celebrating Israel's attack by dancing! This video is old
In response to Israel's Operation Rising Lion, which reportedly targeted Iran's nuclear facilities and top military officials, Tehran launched a wave of attacks on June 15 under Operation True Promise 3, killing at least 10 people.Amid this, a video allegedly showed Iranians celebrating Israel's attack on its regime by taking to the streets was widely shared online. The video shot inside a tunnel showed people singing and dancing together as vehicles stood in long queues. The text inside the video read: 'Day 3 of war. Iranians dancing.' advertisementSharing a screenshot from this video, one person wrote, 'Iranians stuck in traffic on their way to Northern Iran start singing and dancing inside a tunnel to celebrate Israeli attacks on the Islamic Regime. Under the Islamic Regime, Iranians are prohibited from publicly dancing, singing, and being joyous.'
India Today Fact Check, however, found that this video is from September 2023 and has nothing to do with the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict.Our ProbeReverse-searching keyframes from the viral clip led us to an extended version of it, shared on an Instagram post on September 12, 2023. Its description, in Persian, stated that people in Iran remained happy even during traffic, adding that heavy traffic had been reported on Iran's Chalus Road. It further credited the viral clip to an Instagram account named 'motor23__' advertisement View this post on Instagram A post shared by // (@iran_beautiful_ir)We then found the same video shared by the aforementioned Instagram account on September 9, 2023. The post contained a hashtag for Chalus. This account had shared another similar video well, showing people dancing in the same tunnel on September 9, 2023. The account's bio mentioned that its owner is from Qazvin, a province in Iran.Both videos were shared by many on social media at the time, mentioning that it is from the Chalus tunnel of Iran. aitohumanizetextconverter.comWe then found a YouTube video of the Chalus tunnel, or the Kandovan Tunnel on the Chalus Road in Iran — a popular route connecting Karaj and Tehran to Chalus on the Caspian Sea. The tunnel in this YouTube video appears to be the same as that seen in the viral clip. It is noteworthy that contrary to the claim, videos from Tehran showed people celebrating Iran's retaliatory missile attack on Israel by waving flags and chanting slogans on the streets recently.It is thus, clear that a 2023 video of Iranians dancing in a tunnel amid traffic was falsely linked to the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict.Must Watch
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