Iran's Photoshopped Missile Launch

Little Green Footballs ^ | 7-9-08 | Charles Johnson, hat tip webs87

[SeafoodGumbo]

At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media has been Photoshopped:

[cripplecreek]

I do believe you are correct.

[To Hell With Poverty]

OH yeah, totally! Damn those stupid media lackeys...

[thefactor]

what? dirt can’t form the same exact dust clouds?

[xcamel]

posted, toasted, and roasted....

dem irani’s ain’t any too bright, eh?

[kc8ukw]

I’m not sure why, but this has to be good news for us, right? Why isn’t launching 4 missiles impressive enough?

[SERKIT]

Man! The “Fake But Accurate” thing has taken off world-wide. Is Dan Rather pimping himself out to foreign governments now?

[Severa]

*Snicker* Clone Brush is a WONDERFUL tool, isn’t it?

[BurbankKarl]

The first thing I thought of this morning was someone did this to stop the fall in oil futures.

[xDGx]

I see Obama’s birth certificate on one of those missiles!!!

[Perdogg]

The 1st and 4th ones appear to be the same.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Yep, it’s a sham!

[Coffee200am]

Wow..I do better with PS 2 and Xnview!

[cripplecreek]

It seems to me that the two missiles on the right are leaving identical smoke plumes and possibly the one on the far left. Also the air around the missile second from the left looks lighter.

[Steely Tom]

There could have been one launch, imaged by two or more cameras in different locations. Photoshop used to make it look like a coordinated precision launch, like ones we’ve done during testing of SDI.

[F15Eagle]

excellent

[Rebelbase]

Iran wants the world to think it’s got 9 operational missiles to spare for a “test”.

[icwhatudo]

Question:

[JRandomFreeper]

Sucks to be the guys that have to fake info to appear strong.

/johnny

[Liberal Bob]

Not so this was a legit test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97lH0-tuuWE

[Billthedrill]

Busted. BTT.

[G8 Diplomat]

Didn’t they already test the Shihab-3’s anyway? I seem to remember reading they did, but maybe I’m misremembering.

Iran’s big plan to scare the world after the G8 tells them to quit enriching uranium is photoshopping a launch of missiles they’ve already tested? It’s almost funny.

[Eye of Unk]

This is what really happened.

[Scythian]

LOL, man, now it looks like it was all one missile, two at most, that means they don’t have many and didn’t want to waste the few that they had. Great work you guys, heck, I’ll bet our defense department didn’t even pick up on that, this is real news !!

[LegendHasIt]

I’m just thinking outside the box here...

But consider this:
Maybe there were were 4 successful launches, the rockets and trailing plumes are genuine... But the launch platform/vehicle in one of them was identifiable (something they might want to keep secret) in the photo and the easiest way to obscure it was to just clone the dust cloud.

[libh8er]

Methinks same rocket photographed at different stages in flight and layered in Photoshop, besides copying and pasting exhaust smoke.

[humblegunner]

Hey, this is kind of like when Harry Potter attacked Beirut!

[cmsgop]

Ahh that’s the “Shaheeb COX III”

[dighton]

Apparently so. This is the image at LGF.

[eyedigress]

That pick is clearly a photo shop but they did have a successful launch.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

ROTFLMAO!

That was pretty damned funny!

[Shqipo]

Waiting for them to fly in bomb-magnet woman and Rescue guy from Lebanon for their next PR stunt.

[G8 Diplomat]

Or this:

[driftdiver]

I think the little piece of smoke thats just above the red squares on the 2nd and 4th square from left. That part looks very similar as well.

[airborne]

Photoshop made the price of oil rise!

[WrightOnTarget]

"That was just footage from the movie Independence Day, but Iran's real missiles would be a lot like that... yah..."

[McGruff]

I saw the same missile launch videos the last war games like 6 months or a year ago.

[mikrofon]

An offical Iranian representative present at the test firing (right)
has called the photo tampering claims "ridiculous"...

[Allegra]

“Cannot be shot down by ant know weapon...” ROFL!

[tobyhill]

I just saved the JPEG and zoomed in and it’s obviously cloned smoke. The Missiles are probably inserted and the smoke is designed to cover the lack of launchers.

[mikrofon]

LOL .... Ref #38

[hole_n_one]

It looks legit to me..........

[Allegra]

For his next trick, I wonder if Harry would be amenable to dropping one of them thangs in the vicinity of the Elborz Mountains?

[RDTF]

ha!

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2040058/posts?page=297#297

[norcal joe]

Someone from LGF pointed to this photo: http://www.daylife.com/photo/07z0fO0d5I2d3/missiles_iran as the original (or close to it.). So it looks like the third missile from the left was photoshopped in, using the plume from the second missile and the dust from the fourth.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

The only thing missing was:

1. Green Helmet Guy

2. Rage Boy

3. Tourist Guy

4. Palistinian Car Swarm Mob

[Diogenesis]

[Kozak]

Wouldn’t it be great to just happen to have an Aegis Cruiser in the Gulf the next time they try this trick for a little target practice?

[G8 Diplomat]

This was a completely valid test, I triple-guarantee you!