Images went viral on social media. In them, one of the members of the Iranian Government appears in tears and with his mother on a coffin. Are these photographs recent? SIC Verifies. Today, not to be missed, in Jornal da Noite.
Two images showing Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (MNE), Abbas Araghchicrying have gone viral on social media in recent days.
In publications, photographs and of the moment are accompanied by an emotional narrative: “We have already seen him do Trump to cry. We’ve already seen him do ‘Bibi’ [Benjamin Netanyahu] to cry. We’ve already seen him risk his life. (…) But this is Iran’s MNE Abbas Araghci crumbling due to the death of his lifelong friend, the commander Hossein Salami”.
The idea conveyed is that the photographs are recent and linked to current events in Iran.
Will it really be like that?
As photographs are authentic, but not recent. The images actually show Abbas Araghchi, MNE of Iran since August 2024, crying over his coffin Hossein Salamiformer leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. However, this moment did not occur in the current context of the war between Iran and the US-Israel alliance.
The death of Hossein Salami he was on the first day of the so-called “Twelve-Day War” between Iran and Israel. The photographs were captured at that time, during the funeral ceremonies, and distributed by the Iranian regime through international news agencies, as was the case. .
SIC Verifies that it is…
The photographs showing an Iranian minister crying are true, but they are being used out of context. They are not recent, having been captured in June 2025.
