Bangladesh, March 12 -- India has moved swiftly to counter a viral artificial intelligence-generated video falsely depicting its army chief claiming that New Delhi shared sensitive intelligence with Israel about the location of an Iranian naval vessel. Officials say the clip is a manipulated deepfake designed to misrepresent Indias position amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.

The fabricated video shows Upendra Dwivedi, Indias Chief of Army Staff, apparently stating that India provided Israel with information about an Iranian ship operating in the Indian Ocean. In the manipulated footage, the AI-generated voice claims that once the Iranian vessel left Indian territorial waters and entered international waters, India informed Isra...