In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many

By Mike Nizza and Patrick Witty
In the four-missile version of the image released Wednesday by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, two major sections (encircled in red) appear to closely replicate other sections (encircled in orange). (Illustration by The New York Times; photo via Agence France-Presse)
Updated, 9:33 a.m., Agence France-Presse has retracted the image as “apparently digitally altered.”
As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites.

The Los Angeles Times, The Palm Beach Post and Chicago Tribune, among others, used the image on the front pages on Thursday.
Our homepage at 3:56 p.m. on Wednesday.
Agence France-Presse said that it obtained the image from the Web site of Sepah News, the media arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, on Wednesday. But there was no sign of it there later in the day. Today, The Associated Press distributed what appeared to be a nearly identical photo from the same source, but without the fourth missile.
As the above illustration shows, the second missile from the right appears to be the sum of two other missiles in the image. The contours of the billowing smoke match perfectly near the ground, as well in the immediate wake of the missile. Only a small black dot in the reddish area of exhaust seems to differ from the missile to its left, though there are also some slight variations in the color of the smoke and the sky.
Does Iran’s state media use Photoshop? The charge has been leveled before. So far, though, it can’t be said with any certainty whether there is any official Iranian involvement in this instance. Sepah apparently published the three-missile version of the image today without further explanation.
For its part, Agence France-Presse retracted its four-missile version this morning, saying that the image was “apparently digitally altered” by Iranian state media. The fourth missile “has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test,” the agency said.
Top, the image that Agence France-Presse obtained from Sepah News on Wednesday. Below, another image that The Associated Press received from the same source on Thursday

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"

Mussolini did the same thing prior to WWII with his propaganda films. He pretended his military was way larger than it was. Americans were shown Italian warplanes flying in drove after drove through the Italian skys, along with jack-booted Italian military troops marching as far as the eye could see. Italy fell in the first months of WWII and was nothing more than a paper tiger.

Vi

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Liberals are people that will believe anything twice.

damn i didnt know that



man but it shows how stupid they are, i mean did they really think they could fool the world with this shitty job?

i heard our military was like no you didnt fire 9 missles you fired 7 and they knew that by watching

they got that whole country under arial survalence


i bet they could even tell you which kabob stand had the longest lines


they are too used to newbing thier people cuz they have a media black out

lol he even looked so stupid when he came here and said theres no gays in iran and all the students laughed at him

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"

Seems to me 1 mid range ballistic, in the big picture, wouldn't mean a whole lot to anyone. Israel's not going to start shakin in their boots and Iran still knows, 4 missles or 5, that when all is said and done, we got their(Israel) backs. probably a "news" agency that touched it up.

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oh ya i didnt even think of that, your right thats probably who did it cuz i was gonna say how dumb would irans gov have to be to do somthing like that, cuz they are the ones who released the pic of the truck with the missle that was not lauched

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"

Your probably a bit nuts.
Why would a news agency want to touch it up?
They are just trying to puff themselfs up which is why they had the so called tests in the first place.

The media thrives over political controversies. The more people watch the news, the more money they are making. I wouldn't doubt it if the media did some whack shit, it wouldn't be the first time.

RON PAUL REVOLUTION

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"We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools." MLK

While you are right in what you say the US media could not git a way with such shit even if they are left wing., We a broken clock is right twice a day and with years of hard work you to could be right as often as the broken clock.

Go fist yourself

RON PAUL REVOLUTION

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"We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools." MLK

Good answer!

While you are young enough spend a lot of time fisting yourself I on the other hand am old and smart enough to have other things done for me by females.
As I said with years of hard work you could be as right as a broken clock.