Earlier this month, Iran’s news agency provided visual evidence that its government had figured out to make a new UAS that could take off and land vertically.

What they didn’t tell us is that they used Photoshop to make it stop taking off from the roof of Japan’s Chiba University, which built the aircraft and never had anything to do with Iran’s alleged version of it.

Above is actual visual evidence of the two images — the Iranian image is on the left, the Chiba University 2008 image is on the right — with the same building and everything… except for those windmill things. All the credit of this photoshop spot goes to one Gary Mortimer, a blogging pilot who photo-sleuthed the scam.

This isn’t the first time Iran has been caught manipulating reality: Just last month their state news agency was caught passing off a scene from the disaster-thriller The Day After Tomorrow as a real scene of Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath, and in 2008 the Iranian government released some doctored photos of a successful rocket launch. According to the Mehr news agency, the drone — whatever it does, or whether it even looks like the thing above — is scheduled to be unveiled for real in the coming weeks when, presumably, Iran upgrades to CS6.

Sorce: The Atlantic Wire