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On Monday, the Department of Defense was forced to correct a Truth Social post by President Donald Trump, which wrongly asserted, through the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video, that U.S. military forces had conducted a large-scale attack on Iran’s Kharg Island.

The U.S. and Iran launched attacks against each other on Sunday evening. But according to a U.S. official, no such attack occurred on Kharg Island, despite Trump’s post suggesting otherwise.

Instead, the U.S. military conducted attacks on Larak Island, which is close to the Iranian coastline near the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM claimed that the attack was necessary because Iran was supposedly placing “minelaying forces” in the area. In response, Iranian media reported that the country launched counterattacks against U.S. bases in Jordan.

The actions between the two countries are believed to be the first known attacks to have occurred since July. They also come as the war in Iran, started and continued by the Trump administration with no authorization from Congress, completed its sixth month of hostilities, despite the president promising at its start that it would take no more than a few weeks to........

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