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Iran’s Cloned Missile Threat

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In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many

Latest update at 3 p.m. Eastern Agence France-Presse has retracted the image as “apparently digitally altered.” More developments at the bottom of the post.

(The New York Times) – 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 was used 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.


A picture released by Iran's Revolutionary Guards showed four missiles rising during a test-firing in the Iranian desert. (AFP/Getty Images  

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