Following heavy explosions in Tehran earlier in the day, Iranian state-aligned and IRGC-affiliated media are distributing footage claiming to show the devastation of Iranian missile strikes hitting central Israel and Tel Aviv.
Following a series of severe explosions in western Tehran early Monday, March 16, 2026—which heavily damaged strategic infrastructure at Mehrabad Airport and were widely suspected by local sources to involve Israeli or American action—Iranian state-affiliated media networks have begun circulating footage of what they claim are retaliatory missile strikes against Israel.
The state-aligned news channel فارس بینالملل و سیاست خارجی (Fars News International) published videos showing what it described as the "initial images of the impact of missiles fired from Iran in the center of the occupied territories". The agency subsequently posted additional video clips purporting to show more footage from the impact sites.
The کانال اخبار سپاه پاسداران 🏴, a Telegram channel directly affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), explicitly identified the target of the strikes. The channel shared media depicting the "aftermath of the impact of Iran's missiles in Tel Aviv".
Similarly, the state-aligned news aggregator آخرین خبر (Akharin Khabar), alongside the conservative daily newspaper Vatan-e-Emrooz, amplified the narrative by broadcasting further visuals. They shared "images of the devastation left behind by the impact of Iranian missiles", presenting the strikes as highly destructive.
The source material consists entirely of short captions accompanying videos/images distributed by Iranian state media and IRGC-linked channels. They uniformly frame the events as a successful and devastating Iranian missile strike on Israel ('the occupied territories') and Tel Aviv. The messaging appears to be a coordinated release of footage demonstrating immediate retaliation for the severe explosions in Tehran earlier the same day.