Video shows fire in Malaysian factory, not Iran's attack on Israel's air defense system
The arch enemy of Iran and Israel undertook a devastating 12-day strike, then followed a U.S.-propaganda ceasefire on June 24, but the video shared on social media did not show the results of an Iranian missile attack on Tel Aviv's air defense system. The video actually shows a fire at a Malaysian factory filmed a few weeks before the Iran-Israel war began.
“Tel Aviv’s Israeli air defense system was destroyed by Iranian missiles,” Thai text wrote in a Tiktok video released on June 20, 2025.
Video shows people watching the fire behind a distant building, and then the explosion appears to fire balls into the air.
It surfaced the day after the buildings of Ramat Gan and Holon, a hospital in southern Israel and central towns, were close to the coastal hub Tel Aviv. Iran said the main target of the attacks in southern Israel was military and intelligence bases, not hospitals (files).
Iran has been firing missile barrage in Israel since the June 13 June attack on nuclear facilities and military bases in the Islamic Republic.
A US-promoted ceasefire announced on June 24 appears to be in possession, ending a 12-day conflict that killed more than 600 people in Iran and Israel (archived).
Screenshot of False Tiktok post was captured on June 23, 2025, AFP added red X
In similar X posts, I also watched the same shots millions of times.
But the video does not show Iran's destruction of air defense systems.
Non-related videos
Reverse image searches on Google using key frames in fake shared videos resulted in the same footage posted on Tiktok a few weeks before the start of the Iran-Israel War (archive link).
The clip was published by user “Hamidhudson937” and its handle can be seen in the upper left corner of the error-sharing video.
The video used in the fake post seems to be a slowing version of the Tiktok clip, and onlookers can be clearly heard in Malay say, “The cylinder is flying.”
Comparison of screenshots of fake shared videos (left) and Tiktok videos released in April (right)
Subsequent keyword searches on Google led to a similar shot of Blaze posted on Tiktok on April 24 with the Malay language title “Factory Fire in Senai's Desa Idaman” (a link to archive).
AFP has positioned the factory to an industrial town in southern Malaysia (link to archive).
Comparison of screenshots of fake shared videos (left) and Google Street View Imager (right) (right), corresponding elements highlighted by AFP
Local media Buletin TV3 and The Sun reported three men were injured in the fire (archived here and here).
AFP previously listed other false claims related to the Iran-Israel War.
