TEHRAN: Pakistan’s embassy in Tehran has rejected social media reports concerning Ambassador Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, describing them as baseless and factually incorrect, after a circulating video was linked to an alleged attack on the diplomat.
The clarification, issued through the embassy’s official X account on November 1, addressed claims spreading across social media and other online forums.
The mission categorically denied the reports, countering suggestions that the Pakistani envoy had been assaulted in the Iranian capital.
The embassy said it had taken notice of reports concerning Siddiqui, Pakistan’s ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran. It made clear that the circulating information had no factual basis.
The denial challenged the central claim accompanying the video: that the footage showed an incident involving Pakistan’s diplomatic representative in Tehran.
The statement focused on rejecting the reports rather than providing a detailed account of how they originated.
The embassy’s response established its official position as the allegations continued to circulate online.
Its clarification offered a direct rebuttal to posts presenting the alleged attack as a confirmed development.
The social media account Expose Propaganda identified the footage as a confrontation between government and opposition lawmakers inside Armenia’s parliament, rather than an incident involving Pakistan or Iran.
Independent fact-checking organisation Misbar also investigated the clip and concluded that the accompanying claim was misleading.
Its investigation traced versions of the footage to Armenian news accounts that published videos of parliamentary clashes on October 29, 2026.
The recordings showed physical confrontations between lawmakers, including scenes inside parliamentary corridors.
The footage therefore concerned a separate political incident and did not substantiate claims about Pakistan’s ambassador.
Allegations of Deliberate Disinformation
Expose Propaganda characterised the misleading presentation as an attempt to spread disinformation and damage mutual trust between Pakistan and Iran.
The distinction matters because identifying the original footage establishes its context without independently proving who deliberately misrepresented it or why.
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The embassy’s denial and the identification of the video’s Armenian context provide separate grounds for rejecting its presentation as evidence of an attack in Tehran.
