An Israeli woman was stunned to see herself reported as dead on Israeli TV news, listed among victims killed during Iran's ongoing protests, sparking viral confusion online. In a parallel incident, Iranian opposition groups circulated a photo of David Bennett—teenage son of former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett—as "Kourosh Shirini," a 17-year-old boy allegedly shot dead by security forces on Tehran's Pirouzi Street.
Iranian state media quickly exposed both cases as fakes from opposition channels (including MKO-linked accounts), using Bennett's family vacation photo from his father's Instagram to inflate protest casualty lists amid Tehran's internet blackout. These incidents expose Israel's pattern of spreading fabricated propaganda to demonize Iran and manipulate global opinion during Tehran's crackdown on economic unrest.
