Does This Photo Show Khamenei’s Body After Israel’s Strike on Iran? No!

The photo is 12 years old and shows Khamenei recovering after surgery in a hospital in Tehran, Iran.

A 12-year-old photo showing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the hospital is being falsely shared as one showing his body after Israel and US struck Iran.

(Source: X/Altered by The Quint)

A photo of Iran's late Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lying in bed in a hospital is being widely shared on social media, where users are claiming that it shows a photo of him after his death.

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

(Source: X/Screenshot)

(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here and here.)

But...?: The claim is false as the image dates back to 2014 and shows a photo of Khamenei in Tehran's Baqiyatallah Hospital after a surgery.

How do we know this?: We ran a reverse image search on the photo, which led us to a September 2014 report by Daily Mail.

• It had shared the same photo as one of Khamenei recovering after getting surgery in Tehran.

• The same image was also shared by BBC Persia in September 2014, which also said that Khamenei had been hospitalised and was getting surgery for prostrate issues.

This is a translated version of the report, which was published in 2014.

(Source: BBC/Screenshot)

• The image was also published on Wikipedia Commons on 8 September 2014.

• Its caption mentioned that it showed Ali Khamenei resting after getting surgery at Tehran's Baqiyatallah Hospital.

The photo shows Khamenei recovering after surgery in 2014.

(Source: Wikipedia Commons/Altered by The Quint)

Conclusion: A 12-year-old photo is being shared to falsely claim that it shows Khamenei's body after Israel and US struck Iran.

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