Does a real video show Iranian missiles destroying a U.S. Navy warship in the Strait of Hormuz? No, that's not true: There are no credible news reports of such an attack, and the clip appears to be from a military simulation video game known for its realistic graphics. There is no evidence that Iranian missiles hit an American military vessel in that part of the world.
The claim appeared in a post and video (archived here) by the @MojtabaKhamen account on X on March 25, 2026. It read:
🚨 🇮🇷JUST IN: 'Just now, Iran has struck a U.S. Navy warship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.'
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @MojtabaKhamen on X.com.)
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) and did not find any matching reports for "Iranian missiles destroy a U.S. Navy warship in the Strait of Hormuz" for March 2026. The world's media would have widely reported such an attack.
Video analysis
Although the graphics look realistic, the explosions, missile movement, and water splashes behave like a modern video game, not real life. The clip is almost certainly gameplay footage, probably from a military simulation game like Arma 3. In this screenshot from the video, all the individual elements -- the explosions, water splashes and fires -- look too pristine to be from actual combat footage. They are not interacting with one another as they would in real footage. Also, the American flag (circled in yellow) appears to have been pasted on top of the scene; it does not respond to the explosions or the waves.
(Image source: post by @MojtabaKhamen on X.)
Also, at the start of the video, a computer mouse cursor (circled in red) is visible on the screen. You can see it move from right to left in the first second of the clip. This shows the video is a screen recording of a computer program or game, not real camera footage:
(Image source: post by @MojtabaKhamen on X.)
You can watch the video here:
🚨 🇮🇷JUST IN: "Just now, Iran has struck a U.S. Navy warship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz." pic.twitter.com/rZJrDXZ2Wv
-- Mojtaba Khamenei Commentary (@MojtabaKhamen) March 25, 2026
