Claim: Indian Airspace was used by the United States during Operation Midnight Hammer on June 22, 2025.
Conclusion: FALSE. US Didn’t Use Indian Airspace For Strikes On Iran Nuclear Sites as it had taken the trans-Atlantic route.
Rating: Totally False — 
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Following the US strikes on three Iran nuclear sites on Sunday, June 22, 2025, several social media posts surfaced on social media with claims that US forces used Indian airspace for strikes on Iran.
CONFIRMED: Indian airspace was used by U.S. forces to strike Iran.
New Delhi’s quiet complicity now places it on the wrong side of history.
Iran will not forget. pic.twitter.com/cuuIeKKjXw— Sahar Emami (@iamSaharEmami) June 22, 2025
Shared here, these social media posts said, “CONFIRMED: Indian airspace was used by U.S. forces to strike Iran.
New Delhi’s quiet complicity now places it on the wrong side of history.” Since the claim used Iranian TV IRIB anchor Sahar Emami’s name in the X account, the claim has been shared widely.
FACT-CHECK
Owing to the nature of the claim, Digiteye India took it up for scrutiny and searched on Google News. the results showed that India’s official Press Information Bureau has debunked the claim as fake news, denying the claim that Indian air space was used in US strikes on Iran. In its post on X on Sunday, the PIB Fact Check unit labelled the assertion as “FAKE” and clarified, “Indian Airspace was NOT used by the United States during Operation Midnight Hammer.”
Several social media accounts have claimed that Indian Airspace was used by the United States to launch aircrafts against Iran during Operation #MidnightHammer #PIBFactCheck
❌ This claim is FAKE
❌Indian Airspace was NOT used by the United States during Operation… pic.twitter.com/x28NSkUzEh
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) June 22, 2025
Secondly, India doesn’t come under the route taken by the US missiles during Operation Midnight Hammer as shown in the picture below by the Pentagon:
In a press briefing, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen Dan Caine explained showing the above image about the route used by US aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean, which clearly excludes Indian airspace.
Thirdly, the post shared in the name of IRIB anchor Sahar Emami is misleading. She has posted a video on X.com to deny it and also stated that she never has an X account.
the real Sahar Emami: I do not have an account on X/Twitter!
The account below is a sick grifter using her image for personal gains by engagement farming and posting fake headlines, AI images, etc. Please report and block them.
Share Sahar’s video widely. https://t.co/U5HcUgItR1 pic.twitter.com/OBhZs0gWc3
— 🌬️🏴 (@magnxsium) June 21, 2025
Hence, the claim is totally false.
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