Iran and "almost certainly fake" things

Iran has been the subject -- and will probably continue to be -- of so make trumped up an faked charges that I am seriously thinking of starting a website or blog category dedicated to these "almost certain fake" stories.

Like the one that Ahamadinejad was secretly a Jew, that Iran had passed a law requiring Jews to wear yellow badges, that uranium was missing in Iran, that the IAEA was hiding secret documents that would prove the existence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, that Khamenei is planning an excape to Russia by a "check-up" airplane for himself and his family, that Iranians run over the arms of little boys with cars for stealing bread, that soccer players wore green wristbands as a sign of their support for riotors, that massive fraud was proven to exist in the presidential elections, that theQom facility was "clandestine" etc. etc. too many to keep track of.

Comments

[k_w]

Don't forget the pile of triggers and initiators that must be lying around in Tehran. And, please, make a reference to "Operation Merlin".

[Pirouz]

I've also had to personally refute a bunch of these. Here's a partial list:

- A fake letter by upper mid-level officers of the Artesh (regular armed forces) warning the IRGC against the use of force on protesters.

- Photoshopped photos of clerics praying at mosques with firearms.

- A photo of a NAJA antiriot policemen wearing a photoshopped green skull cap, intending to show that some of the security forces had crossed over to the protesters' side.

- A fake story of a large assembly of army conscripts interrupting their superiors with "loud coughing sounds" during a political talk concerning a pro-Green cleric.

- A continuing story of Iran rush ordering armored water cannon vehicles from China, to be used against the protesters. In fact, NAJA (Iran's national police) already has AWCVs, from before the post-June 2009 election aftermath, but these have yet to see any real significant deployment.

- Many reports purposely mistake NAJA police officers (a non-IRGC entity, under the authority of the Ministry of Interior) for the IRGC itself (Revolutionary Guards) when making claims of inappropriate or excessive force used against protesters and rioters.