According to IRGC propaganda, Iran is winning, U.S. ships have been sunk, and several U.S. aircraft have been shot down.A claim circulating online says Bahrain and Jordan have demanded the withdrawal of U.S. troops from their territory. Neither government has made such a demand. The claim combines two unrelated developments, a Jordanian civil-society petition campaign and a U.S.-initiated security evacuation from Bahrain, into a false narrative of state-level rejection.In Jordan, more than 130 political, academic, tribal, and trade union figures signed an open letter in July urging the government to cancel or restrict its 2021 defense cooperation agreement with Washington. The letter is a petition to Amman, not a government position.Israeli analyst Ronen Yitzhak told The Jerusalem Post that the campaign is “exactly what Iran intended” when it struck Jordan and Gulf states earlier in the war. He described it as an attempt to pressure the public into demanding a U.S. withdrawal that Amman has not sought. King Abdullah retains constitutional authority over the agreement and has given no indication that the policy will change.In Bahrain, personnel did leave, but at Washington’s direction. The State Department ordered dependents and non-emergency staff to depart after Iran’s February 28 missile strike on the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama. It was a U.S. safety decision, not a Bahraini demand.The Pentagon is also considering withdrawing or repositioning forces from the Persian Gulf, according to The Washington Post, after more than 200 U.S. facilities were damaged or destroyed during the war. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has not ordered a formal review, and a senior Pentagon official described the process as “prudent planning” rather than a decision to withdraw. The deliberation originated in Washington, not Manama.The situation is similar in Okinawa, Japan. Pro-China and anti-U.S. accounts frequently circulate claims that the Japanese government has demanded a U.S. troop withdrawal. In reality, many Okinawans oppose elements of the U.S. military presence, particularly the long-delayed relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. This local opposition is routinely cited online as proof that “Japan wants U.S. troops out.”However, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that the current realignment plan is intended to relocate Marines from Okinawa to Guam and other locations, reducing the impact on local communities while maintaining the deterrence provided by U.S. Forces Japan. This is a redistribution of forces, not a withdrawal.A Congressional Research Service report confirms that the United States and Japan agreed in December 2024 to relocate roughly 4,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam. Current negotiations over the alliance’s cost-sharing agreement do not indicate a withdrawal. At the same time, Tokyo is deepening operational integration through a new joint force headquarters. Okinawan prefectural opposition to a specific base plan does not mean that the Japanese national government is rejecting the alliance. It never has.The false troop-withdrawal claim is one part of a much larger operation. NewsGuard had tracked 151 false claims related to the Iran war as of its August 28 update, collectively drawing hundreds of millions of views.One image purported to show an Iranian missile bearing the Farsi inscription “In memory of the victims of Epstein Island.” It was confirmed to have been AI-edited. The original image predates the war and contains no such writing.A March 15 video of Benjamin Netanyahu joking about reports of his death was falsely described as AI-generated to suggest that he had actually died. AI-detection firm GetReal Security and corroborating footage confirmed that the video was authentic.Video and photographic “evidence” claiming that Iranian missiles struck the USS Abraham Lincoln on March 2 was also recycled. The video is dated to June 2025, the image to 2013, and CENTCOM denied that any such strike occurred.On September 16, Iranian state-linked media posted on X a video appearing to show Iranian drones striking the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier, with fires breaking out and crew members running in panic. The caption claimed that a “massive missile and drone attack” had killed nearly 200 people, “including soldiers and special forces personnel.”The video is fake, and the incident did not happen. The caption also makes little sense because soldiers and special forces personnel are not stationed on an aircraft carrier’s flight deck. Days earlier, another post claimed that Iran had captured several “CIA boys from Delta,” conflating the CIA, an intelligence agency, with Delta Force, a military unit. There is likely very little overlap between the two.A separate video showing a ship on fire was captioned: “Breaking: Iran reportedly targets and blows up another ship as the US and Israel stand by, with Tehran declaring that operations will continue in pursuit of its goals!” In reality, Iran has destroyed zero U.S. ships. Even if the footage were genuine, it would depict the first such incident, not “another” one.The same footage resurfaced on a different account with a Portuguese-language caption claiming that a U.S. ship had been attacked for crossing the Strait of Hormuz “without Iran’s authorization.” The report shows how the same fabricated video is repackaged in different languages for different audiences.One of the more self-aware posts featured a photo of IRGC commander Hossein Salami with the caption: “Addressing America: America is accustomed to producing images and fabricating narratives in the Hollywood style.” The propaganda campaign was accusing genuine U.S. media coverage of being propaganda.NewsGuard’s analysis found that only a handful of the 151 tracked claims were traced directly to Iranian state media. This likely reflects the damage U.S. and Israeli strikes inflicted on Iranian broadcast infrastructure, including the shelling of IRIB’s headquarters. Most of the content comes from anonymous accounts, engagement-farming networks, and proxy influencers. This distinction matters because attribution to the Iranian regime is weaker than attribution to a broader pro-Iran information ecosystem that it does not fully control.That ecosystem receives substantial assistance from inside the United States. A Carnegie Endowment analysis found that Iran is deliberately directing content at diaspora communities, Global South solidarity networks, and the U.S. anti-war left. These audiences have pre-existing grievances against American foreign policy that make them receptive to anti-Trump and anti-war framing, regardless of whether the underlying claim is true.PBS News reported that pro-Iran AI meme campaigns are specifically designed to troll Trump and shape the domestic narrative.The pro-Iranian propaganda machine publishes videos in multiple languages. Many are picked up and shared by people who are anti-Israel, anti-U.S., or pro-Russian, including U.S. citizens, such as those who marched in “Hands Off Iran” and pro-Hamas protests. They share the content because it supports a narrative they already want to believe, that the war is a Trump-manufactured disaster or that America is losing, rather than because they have verified it.The post Pro-Iran Propaganda Spreads False Claims of US Troop Expulsions and Sunk Ships appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.