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Iranian News Outlet Appears to Have Been Caught Photoshopping an Iranian Military Achievement — Check Out the Evidence

Feb. 12, 2013 2:02pm Liz Klimas

Remember Iran’s single-seat Qaher F-313 bomber that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled earlier this month, but skeptics quickly jumped on the photos saying it was “fake” and questioned if it could even fly because it was “clearly not a working prototype”? Well, this photo was released to put skepticism to rest, but only it appears to have increased doubt as the evidence now suggests it was a Photoshop job.

Some Claim Irans Qaher 313 Jet Was Photoshopped to Appear to be Flying

(Image via France 24)

France 24 reported that some Iranians criticized Khouz News for photoshopping the image from some of the original photos released of the aircraft.

(Image: Mashregh News via France 24)

France 24 also pointed to this blogger who seems to have found the image of the mountain photoshoppers used.

Comparison (Image: http://harfhaye-nagofte-elham.blogspot.fr)

Here are a few more photos of the aircraft from earlier in the month:

Iran’s newest fighter jet, Qaher-313, or Dominant-313, is unveiled by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accompanied by top officials during a ceremony, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. Ahmadinejad unveiled the country’s newest fighter jet, which officials claim can evade radar. Ahmadinejad said at a Saturday ceremony broadcast on state TV that Qaher-313, or Dominant-313, showed Iran’s will to “capture peaks.” (Photo: AP/ISNA, Amir Pourmand)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, makes his way during a ceremony to unveil Iran’s newest fighter jet, Qaher-313, or Dominant-313. (Photo: AP/Fars News Agency, Hossein Zohrevand,File)

The plane in the images as a whole has been criticized by some saying the material for canopy looks off, the cockpit had too few wires that would be necessary for its gadgets, and the air intake and nose seemed too small to support some of Iran’s claims for its capabilities. Find more details about skepticism regarding the plane here.

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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imperative
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:22pm
`…but skeptics quickly jumped on the photos saying it was “fake”`

Skeptics? Not Truthers or conspiracy theorists?

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:34pm
  you are only a truther if you disagree with the government/media narrative
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:31pm
  Hahahaha. Ain’t that the truth… er… uh… hahahah.
  
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- lawrench
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:41pm
  Uh…. Look at my new fighter jet…. I mean stop looking at my nuclear enrichment facilities and look at my cool new fighter jet.
  
  I am surprised they call it the F-313 and not the 12th Iman.
  
  I wonder where the ejection handles are located? Wouldn’t there be two? One between the pilots legs and another on the top of his seat? Just curious if Hollywood has been lying to us for all of these years. I do not think that is a real jet, I actually think it is a mock up.
  
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- starman4
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:17pm
  Reply to Imperative: the old Martin-Baker ejection seat on the F-4 Phantom had lower and over-the-head handles (I flew the F-4), but ACES ejections seats from the F-15 on have only a between-the-legs handle. Nevertheless, the Iranian thing is a gross fake. Compare the intake size from an F-15 or F-22 to this…the Iraninan air intake is T-38 size, enough to supply a J-85 engine at 3000 pounds of thrust…barely enough to get this thing off the ground even with two engines. But even more than that…let’s look at Iranian aircraft develpment through the years. Gliders? NONE. Single engine piston planes? NONE. Twin piston planes? NONE. Any turbine planes? NONE. Helicopters? NONE. Small transports? NONE. Biplanes, triplanes, hot air balloons, dirigables, blimps, ultralights? NONE. Magic carpets? Er, Disney says maybe (I own an some Isfahans…incredible workmanship, but they don’t fly). So…a nation that has never manufactured a car, a motorcycle, or a ceiling fan suddenly can make a stealth fighter? Laughable.
  
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- imperative
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:43pm
  @STARMAN4
  
  You sound very informed. Clearly you can’t be trusted!
  
  ;-)
  
  The question in my post above was rhetorical. When people question an official story, this site labels them as Truthers and uses other disparaging descriptions. Apparently we’ve been approved to question with boldness in this particular case.
  
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- Silvertruth
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:40pm
  More issues than just those. The skin looks like some kind of fiberglass overlays than a true fit to form composite would be. You build molds of the external skin and composite to those then bake and cut to fit. The external skin should be smooth. This skin looks more like you’d expect from paper mache’.
  
  The biggest threat to this thing is probably termites as it’s likely never leaving the ground.
  
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- John.Galt
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:07pm
  @Imperitive – yes, because the gov’t never lies when democrats are in charge…
  
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- RamonPreston
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 12:09am
  If you disagree with the government then you are a terrorist.
  
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searcher619
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:03pm
You gotta fake it till you make it!

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- Tickdog
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:22pm
  thats what she said…
  
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Salamander
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:00pm
Didn’t Saddam Hussein do the same thing–with WMD? Of course, he first used some of his chemical arsenal to give the appearance that he was capable of gassing the World! His bluff was necessary to keep the Ak-my-dinner-jacket crowd off his back! This was his undoing as it was enough to give George Bush the reason to take Affirmative Action (and, I’m not talking Food Stamps for the Poor)! However, let us have no doubt there were, indeed, Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, not the least of which was Saddam Hussein himself!

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:13pm
  well if saddam was a WMD – what do you call chuck norris?
  
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- Landon410
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:39pm
  weapon of world destruction
  
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- Toltepeceno
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:08pm
  soybomb315_II Mr. Norris.
  
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- thx1138v2
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:43pm
  No. Saddam Hussein had the weapons. He was supposed to destroy them after the first gulf war and keep records to show they were destroyed. Instead he danced with arms inspectors for twelve years. It was never up to anyone to prove he had them. They were known. They were inventoried. It was up to him to prove he destroyed them and he would not or could not.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 5:28pm
  Hey THX – are you referring to the chemical weapons we gave that he used against the iranians?
  
  i thought iraq was all about preventing them from getting nuclear weapon?
  
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- tzion
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:46pm
  @Soy
  You thought wrong then. Why don’t you read the Authorization Act for Iraq? It gives nearly two full pages of treaty violations, acts of aggression, and numerous other actions taken by Iraq that justified the use of armed force.
  
  It’s all there:
  http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ243/pdf/PLAW-107publ243.pdf
  
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- Mike Austin
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:18pm
  Dipstick. Ask the Kurds if he had them.
  
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olderjarhead
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:53pm
We get fed propaganda from our own government every day. So this is a big deal? I hear this jet was developed in response to an anti-muhammed video. But we are still working on those details.

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- Twisted Mind
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 5:39pm
  What does it matter??????
  
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jackact
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:52pm
How about a photo shopped picture of a bare chested Obama standing next to ‘buddy’ Putin?
Include the evil spawn of Jong IL and you’ve got three ‘dear fathers’ and the basis of communism 101.

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- Uncle Dave
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:59pm
  Should they include a shotgun for obummer? That way it looks like he’s “gun friendly”…
  
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Slowman101
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:49pm
Actually, there are a few things about the Iranian jet that really impress me: (1) They got the material from Mattel. (2) They are up to version 4 of Photoshop. (3) The amount of wries coming out of the back of the avionics panel is amazing. How complex! (5) They think highly of their pilots. The pilot is already in the preliminary “meet Allah” position with his knees so high. When he meets an American F-15 all he has to do is place his head between his knees and kiss his a** goodbye!

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- thx1138v2
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:45pm
  I was thinking he was looking down and saying, “What’s this button do?”
  
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- KickinBack
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:49pm
  And of course it won’t show up on radar…After the F-15 blows it out of the sky it won’t…
  
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000degrees
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:46pm
I would equate the goons that built this toy, knowing full well that it was fake, to the same type of person that tells us jobs in the millions were created, all questions/concerns regarding Bengazi were answered, unemployment is dropping, I’ve fallen and hit my head, it was the video, I voted “present” and on and on…..same kind of people…

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- gb123
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:32pm
  That’s OK. they took your “present” vote, photoshopped/edited it to read “prezdent” & hey presto the annointed one gets re-elected.
  
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UNALIEN
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:44pm
Maybe, they are using reverse cointelpro, the plane exists but they release an obvious photoshop to make the world believe it doesn’t……

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- olderjarhead
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:54pm
  Doubtful.
  
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- Samsss
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:34pm
  We’ll find out the next time an F-16 Pilot says ‘I’ll wait – send ‘em up”!! when he threatened by another Iranian dispatcher who falsely accuses one of our planes “violating” Iranian airspace!!
  
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LakewoodEd
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:43pm
Could somebody photoshop Obama shooting this plane?

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- The_Woofster
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:01pm
  He’d flinch and miss!
  
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Disabledvet
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:38pm
27 years Aircraft Engine mechanic in the Air Force, AirFrame and Power plant License with the FAA, those intakes are way to small to support the air flow needed to maintian the engines needs to stay running.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:37pm
their air force and navy suck – so why is everyone so scared of them?

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:49pm
  Uh- Because they have lots and lots of enriched Uranium? Uh- Because they are a radicalized islamic state who vow to kill the innocent? It’s no so much fear as it is common sense.
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:48pm
  Iran is a threat because they are working on nuke capability. Even if they are not close to a working bomb; they could still put together a “dirty bomb”; which can still kill hundreds of thousands…..and that would be a slow agonizing death on its own.
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:53pm
  They are currently spending alot of money that fuels the machine that kills Americans.
  WHEN they build/buy/steal a nuke, they will use it.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:57pm
  the same was said about iraq and all that did was destroy ourselves with debt
  
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showmerancher
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:35pm
That reminds me… after the “skeet” photo and the Benghazi affair I meant to go back and look at the pic of Obama supposedly in the situation room during the Bin Laden raid. I’ve got my suspicions.

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EQUALIZER
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:33pm
Not real, no problemo. Barry Soetoro will send them the real thing on a silver platter for free.

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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:33pm
it evades radar by not flying

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- MDECKER
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:19pm
  That’s good!
  
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Gonzo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:33pm
Nice fake plane Iran, but we’ve got a fake president…top that!

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:33pm
  I can only wish that “That Guy” was a photoshop creation. But… I’m pretty damned sure his B.C. is.
  
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Stoic one
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:31pm
The give away for me is the lights; see the floor light illuminating the tail section in both the display and the “in flight” pictures? they should have easily scrubbed that, but they did not.

Hmn….

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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:39pm
  The curb feelers and spinner hubcaps give it away.
  
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- The_Woofster
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:19pm
  Plus the playing card that’s attached by the clothespin so that it makes that brr, brr, sound on the wheel spokes!
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:46pm
  Gonzo….
  
  Do I see a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from the canapy?
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:24pm
  I think it’s a Playboy air freshener Lake.
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:25pm
They’ve got nothing on Barry.

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Saff SGT
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:24pm
Obama sent Iran a toy from target

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JSherrillj
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:20pm
Why are the warning signs in English?

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:15pm
Figures, it must have been done by the same people who chop-shopped the photo of Obama skeet shooting at Camp David.

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Gonzo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:14pm
Maybe they can use the 3-D printer and copy a whole fleet of them!

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:19pm
  LOL, GONZO. Looks like we are on the same page.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:45pm
  i cant believe we are going to spend another couple trillion to get rid of a country that cant even make proper propaganda
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:57pm
  We’re not Soy, we’re not.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:01pm
  Gee SOY, we are poking fun at the lunacy of it all. Don’t tell me you are falling for this hook, line, and sinker? Furthermore, you need not be concerned. If the Russians sent Iran a number of full fleets of their most modern fighters and bombers complete with a training package, maintenance parts and personnel, out MSM would never let the info out, and you’d certainly never hear anything from the White House. The Pentagon is neutered of any of their Flag Officers who would otherwise have spoken out. Iran can rattle sabers all they want in our direction. 0bama might give some minor lip service, but nothing will come of it. You can safely reinsert your head in the sand, knowing as a Rontard that 0bama will spend no further money on defense. There are too many other potential voters to buy off, and opposition to be destroyed.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:14pm
They could have done a more convincing job on that aircraft had they just used a couple of those 3D printers.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:27pm
  I’m going to have to go back to wearing my tin hat if you don’t quit reading my mind R.J.!
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:49pm
  Gonzo
  
  I know the feeling. Just had mine lead lined to keep him out.
  About every 4 posts I write RJJ said the same thing almost at the same time.
  
  Maybe it’s something in the water in AL. LOL
  
  What you say RJJ? Maybe you missed your calling. “RJJ’s Fortune Telling & Palm Readings”
  You could also sell the islamic stress releivers in your shop.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:06pm
  OLDSURFRAT, LOL, I think it might be one of those KEATONC333 declared coincidences, or it could have been the indigestion that I have had the last couple of days. As for the fortune telling, I think that I will leave that to ROSE-ELLEN.
  http://www.rose-ellen.com/
  
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Cavallo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:09pm
Dude,.. don’t worry.. they’ll soon have some brand new F-16 American made and paid for, all from Egypt. Why build your own when your enemy will build them for you for free?

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The_Jerk
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:08pm
So what.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:36pm
  i guess the implication is that our government never lies???
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:44pm
  I know Jerk, Dachau was fake too.
  
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The_Woofster
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:06pm
Looks like something I can do on my flight simulator, I have better photos that that!

Plus, you just have to love that crystal clear canopy, and the high tech avionic panel.

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- PK_SEA
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:35pm
  Plus the pilot’s head above the ejector seat headrest, knees sticking up, etc. If that pilot had to eject, his head would probably be jerked clean off.
  
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- GO-FOR-LIBERTY
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:41pm
  Now how can you loose your head at 4MPH? Ground speed that is –thing can’t fly.
  
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