Fact Check: Recycled Video Does NOT Show U.S. "Deployment to Iran ... Just Filmed" On June 22, 2025

Does a viral video document U.S. Army soldiers deploying to Iran on June 22, 2025? No, that's not true: the video has been online since June 17, 2025. No Army deployments have been documented by evidence-based news sites and neither the White House nor Congress have announced U.S. troops will be sent to Iran. In military usage, "soldier" refers specifically to members of the Army.

The video was posted on several pages. It remained active in a June 22, 2025 X.com post (archived here) on the @HustleBitch_ page, with the caption "🚨 U.S. SOLDIER POSTS VIDEO - "DEPLOYMENT TO IRAN"". It continued:

A U.S. Army soldier just filmed inside a military aircraft filled with troops, and tagged it #deployment and #war. He says they're heading to Iran.

This is what the post on X looked like at the time this fact check was written:

(Source: X.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)

Using Google reverse image search, set for exact matches only, Lead Stories used a still image of part of the video to find the video had been posted to TikTok on June 17 by an account named music/original-sound that appears to be a sub-account of Team Trump, the 2024 X account of the Trump for President campaign. By June 24, the video was no longer displayed in that account's video catalogue, but here's the Google reverse image search index, showing the account and date:

(Source: Google.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)

The White House posted a summary of Trump Administration public statements (archived here) about the July 22 bombing raid on Iran's nuclear program with no mention of troops being deployed and heavy emphasis on statements that the U.S. is not going to war with Iran, just with its nuclear program, as in this example of quotes from Vice President J.D. Vance's television talk show appearances:

(Source: Whitehouse.gov screenshot with red highlights added by Lead Stories.)

Using the search phrase U.S. AND deploy AND Iran, in Google News for the seven days leading up to June 24, Lead Stories found in its index of thousands of news sites no reports of ground troops being deployed to the region, nor any reports of members of Congress supporting or opposing deployment of ground troops to Iran.