On Feb. 28, 2026, the U.S. and Israel hit various locations across Iran with airstrikes, including one that killed the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The strikes opened a war between the two nations and Iran. In that time, Snopes has monitored misinformation and investigated claims people weren't sure were believable. Some of these claims have been true, while others were false, satirical or not possible to confirm. Here are 20 of the many Iran war claims we've researched since the war began five months ago: