Claim
Videos circulating on social media show the headquarters of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran engulfed in flames after being struck by the United States.
Fact
JamiiCheck has established that the claim is false. The videos do not show US strikes on Iran. They are old footage from unrelated fire incidents in China (2022) and Hong Kong (2025).
How we verified
JamiiCheck conducted reverse image searches on the videos and found that:
The first video, showing a skyscraper consumed by flames during the day, has been online since
September 16, 2022. It depicts a massive fire at a 42-storey China Telecom building in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. The incident was widely
reported by international news outlets, while local fire authorities and China Telecom
confirmed that the blaze was extinguished without any casualties.
The second video, showing several high-rise buildings on fire at night, is also unrelated to Iran. It was recorded during a November 26, 2025 fire at a residential housing complex in Hong Kong, which killed 168 people. The video's location is consistent with contemporary news reports and Google Street View imagery of the area.
Context
The old videos resurfaced in July 2026 as tensions between the United States and Iran escalated following renewed military hostilities. Social media users falsely claimed the footage showed the aftermath of US strikes on the IRGC headquarters in Tehran. However, there is no evidence linking either video to Iran or to the recent conflict.
So, the claim is false. The videos do not show the IRGC headquarters in Tehran on fire after US strikes. They are old, unrelated recordings from a 2022 skyscraper fire in Changsha, China, and a 2025 residential building fire in Hong Kong, and have been shared out of context to mislead viewers.