A video of a massive blaze with billowing smoke is being widely shared on social media, where users have claimed that it shows visuals of “Mossad HQ ablaze after Iranian missile strikes.”
The claim about the headquarters of Israel’s intelligence agency being struck by missiles comes amid the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel.
Screenshots of this viral video were also included in a Moneycontrol report about Iran hitting Israel’s intelligence agency.
(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here and here.)
Is it true?: No, the claim is false.
The video shows a motorcycle parking lot which caught on fire in Chongqing, China.
How do we know?: We ran a reverse image search on some parts of the video using Google Lens.
The search led us to a YouTube short, shared by media organisation Shanghai Eye, which carried similar visuals.
It had shared this clip as one of a “large fire” breaking out at a parking lot in China’s Chongqing area on 11 June 2025.
Taking a cue from this, we looked for more information about the incident.
We saw that Reuters had also shared this video with the same information, adding that no casualties had been reported.
Media repository Newsflare also carried a clip of the blaze, noting that the fire started at 1:12 pm and was completely doused by 1:33 pm on 11 June.
Conclusion: A video showing a parking lot on fire in China’s Chongqing has gone viral with the false claim that it shows Israel’s Mossad headquarters after an Iranian missile strike.
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