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AFP Fact Check: Is footage 'showing' General Qasem Soleimani's killing real or fake?
A video has been viewed thousands of times in Facebook and Twitter posts that claim it is aerial footage of a US drone strike killing a top Iranian military commander General Qasem Soleimani "in Iran". The claim is false; the footage is actually from a military simulation video game; Soleimani was killed on January 3, 2020 by a US strike in Baghdad, Iraq.
The video was shared in this Facebook post on January 6, 2020. The one-minute and 40-second long clip appears to show military thermal imagery of a missile strike on a convoy.
The post’s caption reads: “American drone attack on Soleimani in Iran.”
Below is a screenshot of the misleading post: