2021 Image Shared as Recent Western Fires in Iran

2021 Image Shared as Recent Western Fires in Iran

A photo of a Tehran oil refinery fire from the year 2021 (Twitter).

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Several websites and social media accounts, particularly on Twitter, recently circulated a picture that they claimed was of a fire that broke on Monday, February 14, at a military base in Kermanshah, western Iran.

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