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Just the night before, he had posted on Truth Social about the impending executions of these women, quoting a screenshot of a set of eight mesmerizingly backlit, soft-focus images. The images of women were immediately accused of being produced by artificial intelligence. “Trump begs Iranian leaders not to execute 8 AI-generated women. This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen,” said one viral X post.
Moreover, immediately after Trump’s announcement, Mizan, an official Iranian news agency, said, He called the president a liar. “Last night, Donald Trump, citing a completely false news story, called on Iran to overturn the death sentences of eight women.” Some women have already been released, while others face prison time but not death, Mizan said. Furthermore, he said Tehran had not made any concessions – and the women’s situation had presumably not changed.
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Mahsa Alimardani, associate director of the Technology Threats and Opportunities Program at Witness, said that the collage posted by Trump is at least modified by artificial intelligence. Edge. But the women themselves are real. The woman in the upper right corner of the collage is Beta my humilitywhose photo has appeared in numerous news stories in Various right-leaning media outlets last week. Hemmati has been confirmed to have received an A death penalty Issued by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran regarding “the operational work of the anti-American government and hostile groups.”
Alimardani named six of the women (Beta Hemmati, Mahbouba Shaabani, Venus Hosseininejad, Golnaz Naraghi, Diana Taherabadi, Ghazal Jalandri), and said that the identity of the latter two (reportedly Panah Vavahedi and Enseh Nejati) had not yet been verified. The six verified women participated in protests against the government in January. Other than Hemmati, no death sentences were issued to any of the other women.
Not surprisingly, Trump ignores the truth. It is also not surprising that the Iranian regime falsifies details to suit its own narrative, or gaslights the real political prisoners in order to shame the United States.
The additional problem is that the account mocking Trump for coming to the rescue of “eight women created by artificial intelligence” is the same account that went down. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung In hot water when he quoted a misleading video posted by this account. Israeli officials accused the account of being “known for spreading misleading information.” The case of the cryptic quote posted by Lee Jae-myung is a mixed story of truth and misinformation, as the post presented facts that were wildly false, but the video – showing IDF soldiers pushing a limp body off a rooftop in Gaza – was real, documenting an event that may implicate Israeli forces in violation of international law.
The case of the eight Iranian protesters is also characterized by the same confusion between fact and fiction in a mysterious distortion that fuels endless debate about real human rights violations. Their lives have been turned into shiny pixels, dipped quotes, propaganda materials and parodies. While the known liars fight with each other online over who these women are and what will happen to them, they — at least six of them — remain real people who exist outside the Iranian internet blackout.