The 6 Most Absurd Military Hoaxes By North Korea And Iran

The 'missiles' of the first pic are NOT the shahab-3 missile series, as you can see they have not been launched vertically; they are not missiles of any type either. They're 'unguided' artillery rockets (hence launched this way because there are no guidance mechanism on board) known as the Zelzal family of rockets. And the failed missile actually did NOT fail. It was just launched few seconds after the salvo; you can see the launch video on YouTube. Some idiot in the FARS news agency (and probably not Sepah News) must have thought it would look better this way.

The second pic was nothing but lazy journalism from some Iranian news agency and, despite the pathetic efforts of the above 'piece', has nothing to do with the Iranian government. Because there had been no pics available at the time, they've googled for 'Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) UAV,' and used the very first picture; it's nothing extra ordinary or 'scary' about an UNDERGRADUATE project in a third tier technical university in provincial Iran, i.e., the Koker.

And the third one. While the whole concept of the Q313 was propaganda and a pathetic attempt, the third photo, again, has nothing to do with Iranian government or even Iranian journalists. It's done by some FANBOY over the Internet, and even he or she could not have meant this to be taken as a genuine photo!!!

I wonder why and how you distort facts rather easily. I guess that's what 'Popular' Science means in the US.

I really wish that PopSci would put the same effort into their work as the previous writers did.

Also, on numbers 4 and 5:

Kim Jong-Il was not photoshopped looking at things, he was actually looking at things.

The link you post to the Time's 'doctored' photos are not actually doctored aside from the very first one which is the one you used in number 4.

The picture in number 5 simply has the television crew removed and the contrast/brightness/saturation altered. All media does stuff like this. It doesn't say much about the country. It says more about PopSci's crappy writing and fact checking. Not to mention spelling and grammatical errors throughout the posts.