The image of the attack tweeted by Iran's Fars News Agency is actually a picture they gave to news agencies in 2017 when Iran struck ISIL targets in Syria. (See related Guardian story from the 2017 strike: theguardian.com)
This one is from Gaza in November last year. (See related AFP story from November: lecourriercauchois.fr)
This picture is from a gas pipeline explosion in southern Iran in 2016.
This one is also from Iran's strike against ISIL targets in Syria in 2016.
This picture is from the US strike on Saddam Hussein's palace in March 2003.
This picture is from 2017.
This image is more recent, but still not of the strike. It's of the attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad on 31 December. (See this Vanity Fair piece with the photo for reference: vanityfair.com.)
Similarly, this one was also taken from the attack on the Embassy in Baghdad on 31 December. Interestingly, many of the accounts tweeting the misleading photos are doing so in Spanish. (See this CNN article for the original photo: cnn.com.)
This video is an edited version of a much longer video from 2018 showing an Iranian missile strike in Syria.
Be aware that I'm starting to see random accounts tweeting US casualty numbers and they're obviously garbage. US officials have said nothing about casualties and Iran would have no insight into the number of casualties on a US base. Wait for something verified.
To be clear about this thread: The accounts tweeting the fake picture are NOT media. They're independent users. The screenshots I provide for most tweets show the tweet using the photo in a misleading way on the left and on the right, when/where the original photo was posted.
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