Several Iranian Telegram channels are broadcasting footage claiming to show direct impacts of Iranian missiles equipped with cluster warheads hitting targets within Israel, referred to as the occupied territories.
On March 9, 2026, Iranian Telegram channels, which uniformly reflect a pro-government and anti-Israel editorial stance, widely circulated video footage purportedly showing successful Iranian missile strikes. The channels emphasized direct hits and the use of specialized warheads against Israeli targets.
Both the mainstream Iranian news channel Akharin Khabar and its regional affiliate Akharin Khabar Khouzestan shared identical captions alongside video content. As stated in its coverage, Akharin Khabar claimed the footage demonstrates the result of the impact of an Iranian missile with a rain warhead on the occupied territories. Akharin Khabar Khouzestan echoed this exact claim. The phrase rain warhead is utilized in Iranian military terminology to describe cluster or submunition payloads, while occupied territories remains the standard ideological framing for Israel in state-aligned media.
Additionally, the channel Khabar Fori Jang, a source dedicated to urgent military and conflict news, posted related footage. The channel claimed to show "the moment of a direct impact of one of the Iranian missiles on the target", utilizing Iranian and Israeli flag emojis to visually highlight the confrontation.
Key Claims Highlighted by Sources: The strikes utilized missiles equipped with rain warheads (cluster munitions). Channels broadcast video evidence purportedly showing direct, successful impacts on targets within the occupied territories.The messages consist of brief, identical or similar captions for video content (the videos themselves are not present in the text dump). The term "rain warhead" (کلاهک بارشی) translates to a cluster or submunition warhead. The sources exhibit a unified pro-Iran, anti-Israel military narrative, faithfully preserved in the digest without sanitization.