US President Donald Trump announced the dramatic rescue Sunday of a downed airman whose fighter jet crashed over Iran last week, but Iran says the mission was "foiled".Â
The facts remain shrouded in the fog of war, while social media was immediately flooded with misleading or fake images.Â
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