Trump's assertion is false. As @bellingcat.com reported earlier this year, authenticated videos from the strike on the Minab's girl school clearly show that the munitions that impacted the site were Tomahawk missiles. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 3w ago

I would loooove to know what happened during this interview cut immediately after Trump tells a Fox News interviewer that photos of "fragments that appear to be from Tomahawk missiles" at a destroyed Iranian girls school may have been "AI-generated."

This month, we're highlighting the work of our Toolkit Guardians. However, building open-source tools and maintaining the Toolkit wouldn't be possible without your support. If you'd like to help sustain this work, please consider making a donation here: www.bellingcat.com/donate-belli...

Google Lens is fastly becoming a go-to reverse image search tool, allowing for easy geolocations in minutes. However with any AI tool it can make mistakes! Here’s how best to use it: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

PimEyes, a paid tool, lets users upload pictures of a person and conducts an AI search to find pictures of faces that look similar. The results contain photos of similar looking people and link to websites where those pictures show up online. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

Toolkit Guardian @anisashabir.bsky.social manages our Image and Video analysis category in the Bellingcat Toolkit. Here’s what they think about these open source resources:

The InVID Verification Plugin is a toolkit designed to assist journalists in verifying content on social networks. It can help segment keyframes and extract metadata and much more. When verifying an image, use more than one verification tool to ensure accuracy. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

InVID | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit

A toolkit that supports the verification of videos and images.

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RootAbout is a reverse image search tool that pulls indexed images from the Internet Archive, comparing an uploaded image with a dataset of over 37.3 million archived pictures bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

RootAbout | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit

RootAbout is a reverse image search tool that pulls indexed images from the Internet Archive.

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Analysing an image or video for an investigation? Your work can be enhanced with help from open source tools which we have a collection of in our Bellingcat Toolkit. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/cate... Here are a few of the tools we use and how you can get involved 🧵

Image/Video | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit

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Satellite imagery shows that at least 46 towns and villages in southern Lebanon have been heavily damaged or, in some cases, entirely flattened by the Israeli Defence Forces. Bellingcat’s interactive map reveals the scale of the destruction: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/05...

Satellite Imagery Shows Ongoing Demolitions Across Southern Lebanon - bellingcat

Dozens of towns and villages within the IDF's “Yellow Line” in southern Lebanon have been heavily damaged or destroyed in recent months.

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Trump literally tells you not to believe the evidence of your eyes and ears. Too late.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ? TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.

Analysis by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and myself for @newlinesmag.bsky.social reveals that the U.S.-Israeli coalition has employed so-called double tap strikes, showing a callous disregard for civilians and a pattern of airstrikes seeking to inflict reckless harm on Iranians.

US-Israeli Attacks on Iran Show a Pattern of ‘Double-Tap’ Strikes

New Lines verified three cases in Tehran and Karaj where sites were hit multiple times, increasing the harm to civilians and first responders for little military advantage

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Interesting flight in the air now south of Baghdad (32.939, 44.628) likely using bogus hex codes. PAPA04 (039c43) PAPA15 (039c4a) PAPA03 (0374bb) PAPA01 (0374ba)

The @journalismfestival.com is right around the corner. As always, the 2026 programme includes a range of sessions that are particularly relevant for (aspiring) open source researchers. Here is an overview of sessions you shouldn’t miss: t1p.de/mod4u. Most sessions are also live-streamed.

How the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have left its schools and hospitals in ruins Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We're in a weird time with open source and commercial satellite imagery right now and Iran is under a 40-day internet blackout. As a workaround, @bellingcat.com has adapted Ollie Ballinger's remote sensing work to more easily find damaged areas in Iran: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

When Satellite Imagery Goes Dark: New Tool Shows Damage in Iran and the Gulf - bellingcat

Bellingcat is introducing an updated damage assessment tool — called the Iran Conflict Damage Proxy Map — focused on destruction in Iran and the Gulf .

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Israel struck a building today opposite Rafik Hariri University Hospital, approximately 80 meters from a 2024 impact site it also struck, geolocated at 33.861761, 35.491060, in a densely populated area of Jnah in Beirut.

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

textbook sanewashing

US has posted several photos showing jets equipped with dispensers that can dispense BLU-91/B mines, which Bellingcat previously identified in an Iranian village on March 26. These photos were taken on April 2, so it appears the US may be continuing to deploy these mines in Iran.

Looking around for this with @aric.bsky.social and @gbrumfiel.bsky.social, geolocated at 30.835153, 50.589567 north of Dehdasht (~30 miles north of Behbahan). Rough annotation with matching terrain + building area in the foreground. CC: @geoconfirmed.org Map link: www.google.com/maps/place/3...

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Based on help from an Iranian colleague the advertisements visible in this video appear to be for businesses in Behbahan, Iran. The landscape is a good match too. Haven't found precise location yet, but it lines up well with the other video. Source: t.me/sepah_pasdar...

Even with the two week delay in Planet imagery, can already start to see mass demolition of homes in southern Lebanon in PlanetScope imagery from March. Rab El Thalathine and Al-Aadaissah, both near the border, have seen widespread destruction when comparing imagery from March 3 and March 18.

Eman El-Sherbiny@emansh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ayta Ash Shaab, a Lebanese southern border town sustained even more destruction since the the start of the war. Sentinel-2's January 4 image compared to March 17 this year

NEW: On the first day of the war with Iran, the United States used a new ballistic missile. It was untested in combat. Our analysis shows it struck a sports hall, an elementary school, and residential areas — killing at least 21 people, including children. w/ @johnismay.bsky.social

Bellingcat found 31 posts with AI-generated imagery shared on social media by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam and West Bengal in December that appeared to meet the United Nations’ definition of hate speech. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

How India’s Ruling Party is Using AI to Boost Hate Speech

Bellingcat found 31 posts by the BJP that appeared to feature AI-generated images, along with either anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim hate speech, in Assam and West Bengal within a month.

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Videos of explosions have fueled misunderstanding and misinformation in the conflict with Iran, with munition types incorrectly identified amongst claims of “mystery” weapons. What can types of explosions really tell us? Read @easybakeovensz.bsky.social‘s latest: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’, and Disintegration - bellingcat

Explosives test in Canada. Source: Defence Research and Development Canada.

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Pakistan announced that it will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran, though there was no immediate word from the U.S. or Iran, and it was unclear whether the talks would be direct or indirect.

Live updates: Iran warns the US against a ground invasion as regional powers meet in Pakistan

Regional powers plan to meet Sunday in Pakistan to discuss how to end the fighting in the Middle East as about 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the region and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war.

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Two new videos have emerged showing the deadly strikes that hit an IRGC compound, as well as an adjacent girls’ school, in Minab, Iran. By geolocating and verifying the footage, Bellingcat found two waves of attacks, occurring hours apart. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Two Waves of Bombing: New Videos Reveal More Details About Iran Girls' School Strike - bellingcat

Analysis suggests there were at least two waves of strikes carried out in the area around the IRGC complex and adjacent girls' school.

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The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village - bellingcat

US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, Iran.

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Trump calls on Bessent, and Bessent promptly starts kissing Trump's ass

In this particular case the watch helps us to Geolocate a Munition Remnants Pictured at Site of Deadly Chad Strike . The Munition Match A Weapon Previously Used by Sudan’s RSF www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Munition Remnants Pictured at Site of Deadly Chad Strike Match Weapon Previously Used by Sudan’s RSF - bellingcat

Munition remnants pictured at the site of a strike in the town of Tiné, Chad, appear to match a weapon previously used by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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Never forget to check the watches worn by people in videos/images you analyze. It is always of tremendous help for verifying footage and be able to geolocate by understanding shadows , timelines and more. @bellingcat.com

Using interviews, satellite imagery and atmospheric modelling, we reconstructed how smoke from strikes on oil infrastructure spread across Tehran. The plume extended across much of the city. Investigation by @baydoun.nl, @ntabrizy.bsky.social, @wammezz.bsky.social, and myself.

The Noxious Smoke Enveloping Tehran

An exclusive investigation reveals the substantial air pollution unleashed by Israel’s recent strikes on fuel storage sites across Iran’s capital

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