Fox News reports: A photo showing Iranian military officials detonating four military warheads appears to have been digitally altered to show an extra missile, according to New York Times blog The Lede.

The photo was released by Agence France-Presse amid news of Iran’s controversial missile tests.

According to The Times, AFP reportedly obtained the photo from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s media Web site, Sepah News, on Wednesday. The photo ran on the covers of major media outlets around the world before anyone noticed the apparent error.

On Thursday The Associated Press released a photo from Sepah News’ site that appeared almost identical, but with only three missiles shown, The Times reported. AFP retracted the four-missile version of the photo on Thursday, claiming it had been altered by Iranian State Media.

In a statement, AFP said that the missile “has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test.”

It was unclear on Thursday whether or not the Iranian government had any involvement in the incident.

Ynet reports: A Ynet inquiry has revealed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have doctored at least one photo of a missile test it conducted in the Persian Gulf on Wednesday and “added” at least one missile launching that never took place.

The photos were sent to the news agencies by the Revolutionary Guards and were published by media outlets worldwide, including Israel. In a videotape of the Iranian missile testing, which was shot from a slightly different angle, three missiles can be seen launched, while a fourth remains on the ground.

However, in the still photo all four missiles are seen fired into the air almost simultaneously. Some of the details in the images of the launched missiles are suspiciously similar; the tail of the fourth seems to be an exact copy of the missile on the far left.

Several internet sites also claimed that the missile photos were manipulated by the Iranians in an attempt to cover up possible technical difficulties that arose during the test.