Iran has taken into custody many spies hired by the Israeli Intelligence agency Mossad as the Iran-Israel hostilities row continued. Meanwhile, an account ‘SAnPerspective’ on X posted a video. In it claims that Afghanistan with Indian passports are caught smuggling Kamikaze Drones in Iran. In the concerned video, some Military men were taking five men into custody.
The other assertion in the same video is that the Mossad-mercenaries arrested five foreign nationals who were transporting FPV drones. The claim was posted by an account named ‘MonitorX99800’ on the platform X.
Fact Check
The video and the claim were concluded to be misleading by DFRAC. When we used the viral accusation on Google in a search. We failed to find a credible media report to authenticate the allegation. Next, we tried to find any similar statements placed on the official social pages of Iran, Afghanistan, and India but did not find them.
The concerned video was however posted by X by ‘Zawia News’ which is an official Afghani media house. The media wrote a caption stating, “Iranian demonstrators have dragged out five Afghans off their vehicles in the region of Noorabad located in Iran and arrested them.” Because Israel has increased its attacks against Afghans, arrests at the same have increased on the Afghans in Iran.
A BBC report indicated that Iran has arrested Afghans as spies working with the Israeli spy agency Mossad. Yet there are no formal records of the arrest of Afghans in relation to their involvement in the smuggling of drones or holding of fake Indian passports.
Conclusion
So, the claim and the video are deceptive. Based on all the findings gathered from all the sources. The BBC report does not mentions any of those Afghans caught using Indian passports. The footage also contains scenes of regular Afghan citizens, Zawia News reports.
