Does a viral video show some kind of giant missile being transported, and is it related to the current conflict between Iran and Israel? No, that's not true: The video, captioned in one social media post as "the weapon that Israel fear the most" is several years old. It appears to show the transport of some heavy equipment to a gas plant in Uzbekistan by a company named "Çaba & Misnak".
The video reappeared in a post on X (archived here) published on June 19, 2025 by an account named "Tehran Updates". It was accompanied by a caption that read:
This is the weapon that Israel fear the most.
This is what the item in the video looked like:
(Image: screenshot from video posted by @TehranDefence on X)
This is the video in question:
This is the weapon that Israel fear the most.pic.twitter.com/27d1TJlIN5
-- Tehran Updates (@TehranDefence) June 19, 2025
The video has been online since at least January 21, 2021 when it was posted to Youtube (archived here) with a title that read "QANDIM GAZ ZAVODIGA OPKETISHMOQDA" and a description that read:
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This is the video:
Translated by Google Translate, the title read "I'M GOING TO THE KANDIM GAS PLANT" and the description read:
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One important detail in the video is the marking that says "Çaba & Misnak" on the truck pulling the item:
(Image: screenshot from the video above)
It appears to be a Turkish company (archived here) that describes itself as "the leading heavy haulage and lifting company in Turkey, Iraq and Central Asia". In 2019 they posted an infographic to Instagram (archived here) that appears to show the same (or a very similar) transport:
(Image source: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3JqzcrpZ5j/)
Other fact checks
According to AFP, in 2022 the same transport was mistaken for a Russian missile.
