Did official Iranian accounts publish a video of Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, walking into a military operations room? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that the video was ever posted to any official government account or any account closely linked to the government. The video showed signs of AI generation.
The claim appeared in a post and video (archived here) published by the @jacksonhinklle account on X on April 7, 2026. It read:
🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran published video showing Mojtaba Khamenei entering a military operations room for the first time.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @jacksonhinklle on X.)
The video is embedded below:
🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran published video showing Mojtaba Khamenei entering a military operations room for the first time. pic.twitter.com/NMf8t04pjS
-- Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) April 7, 2026
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) and found no matching reports in April 2026 for "official Iranian accounts published a video of Mojtaba Khamenei entering a military operations room," and no record of the video being released by official Iranian state media -- such as the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) or Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) -- outlets whose content the world's media would likely have widely reported.
Video analysis
The video shows signs of AI generation, including unnatural lighting, blurred facial features, and glitch-like transitions between frames. The Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool concluded the video was 71.1% "likely to be AI-generated":
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
