Iranian Missle Image Was Digitally Altered

In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many
By Mike Nizza and Patrick Witty

In the four-missile version of the image released Wednesday by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, two major sections (encircled in red) appear to closely replicate other sections (encircled in orange).

(Illustration by The New York Times; photo via Agence France-Presse)Updated, 9:33 a.m., Agence France-Presse has retracted the image as “apparently digitally altered.”



As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites.



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http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/in-an-iranian-image-a-missile-too-many/index.html?hp

It confirms that we should dismiss much of the hype...as we knew anyway.

I see very similar blast offs which would be expected from identical missiles being launched at the same time but they are not identical blasts. There are differences and what difference would it make anyway whether they fired three or four missiles? :shrug:

so they copied the missle on the right and copied it over the misfired missile.

They changed the color as well as other properties to make it harder to detect but you can clearly see that this was copied.

that many missiles so close together. Iran's pants are on fire.

Well...if they keep it up, their pants will literally be on fire.