Iranian news publishes, erases, denies 'time machine' story

[<a href="//storify.com/cbccommunity/iran-time-machine" target="_blank">View the story "Iranian news publishes, erases, denies 'time machine' story" on Storify</a>]<h1>Iranian news publishes, erases, denies 'time machine' story</h1><h2></h2><p>Storified by <a href="http://storify.com/cbccommunity">CBC News Community</a>· Fri, Apr 12 2013 13:16:34</p><div>Iranian state media ran a story this week about a scientist who claimed to have invented a "time travelling machine." Then, it pulled the story. Then it ran a story dismissing its own "time machine" story. Western media followed the story at every step, and Doctor Who and Doc Brown references were flying. <br><br><a href="http://english.farsnews.com/" class="">Fars News Agency</a>, a semi-official news organization with ties to the Iranian government, posted a story Sunday in which Ali Razeghi, a 27-year-old scientist in Tehran, claimed he had invented and  registered the "Aryayek Time Travelling Machine."<br></div><div>Cbc</div><div> Razeghi told Fars that the device was about the size of a desktop computer and could predict a person's future -- including "age at marriage, number of children, education, occupation, war, disease" -- with "98 per cent accuracy." <br><br>He also claimed the device could predict the rise and fall in the price of commodities, such as oil. <br><br>The story went largely ignored for a couple of days until the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph picked it up, adding some embellishment and a photo of the time-travelling DeLorean from the <i>Back to the Future </i>movies. <br></div><div>Iranian scientist claims to have invented 'time machine' - TelegraphAli Razeghi, a Tehran scientist has registered "The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine" with the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions. T...</div><div>Iranian scientist claims to have invented time machine that allows users to fast forward eight years into the future http://soa.li/ibFFDRYThe Telegraph</div><div>Razeghi, in the Telegraph version of the story, is the managing director of the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions and a serial inventor with 179 devices registered with the government. <br><br>"I have been working on this project for the last 10 years," Razeghi said.<br><br>But some readers were disappointed that the "Aryayek Time Travelling Machine" isn't a time machine in the traditional "go-back-to-1955-and-get-hit-on-by-your-mom" sense of the word. <br></div><div>Eh, this Iranian "time machine" can only predict the future 5-8 years out with 98 percent accuracy http://bit.ly/YLXUUVMatt O'Brien</div><div>Its amazing that Iran has invented a time machine. Even more amazing that the Telegraph reported it straight. http://soa.li/gOHRy3WPaul Harris</div><div>When asked, the Iranian scientist said "I've been working on this time machine for the next fifty years". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9985757/Iranian-scientist-claims-to-have-invented-time-machine.html HT @jannismMr Quar I. Stice</div><div>Some found it fascinating that a scientist in an Islamic republic would dabble in predicting the future. <br></div><div>This leads me to the important question of the day: is time travel halal? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9985757/Iranian-scientist-claims-to-have-invented-time-machine.htmlSara Yasin</div><div>Razeghi actually addressed that issue in his interview with Fars. <br></div><div>Iranian time machine maker: "This project is not against our religious values at all." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9985757/Iranian-scientist-claims-to-have-invented-time-machine.html ht @RosieGrayAli Gharib</div><div>Iranian media have run questionable stories in the past. U.S. officials cast doubt on the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/01/28/iran-space-monkey.html" class="">claim published on Fars that Iran had launched a monkey into space</a> and retrieved it alive. <br><br>The Mehr News Agency released an <a href="http://www.suasnews.com/2012/11/19700/iranian-koker-1-vtol-drone-faked-images/" class="">altered photo of a robotic aircraft from a Japanese university</a> and claimed it was a new Iranian drone. And Sepah News, the media arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/in-an-iranian-image-a-missile-too-many/" class="">photoshopped an extra missile into a photo of a launch test</a> in 2008. <br><br>But many news organizations ran with the Telegraph story, including <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/11/iranian-scientist-claims-to-have-invented-time-machine/" class="">Fox News</a>, <a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/iranian-scientist-claims-to-have-invented-time-machine/story-fn5fsgyc-1226618432074" class="">News.com.au</a>, <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57579317-71/eureka-iranian-scientist-claims-hes-invented-time-machine/" class="">CNet</a>, and <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/variety/2013/04/11/Back-to-the-future-Iranian-scientist-claims-to-have-invented-time-machine-.html" class="">Al Arabiya</a>. Some wrote the story straight, others with tongue planted in cheek and some, like Wired, simply called it out as another example of Iran faking it. <br></div><div>Iran's New Fake Inventions: Time Machine, 'Islamic Google Earth' http://bit.ly/12PfEhRNoah Shachtman</div><div>Iranian 'time machine' can 'predict' oil prices and wars - report http://on.rt.com/3ugjpyRT</div><div>IRAN INVENTS TIME MACHINE via Weekly World News - An Iranian scientist has invented a time machine ... http://tinyurl.com/bm3ha3dweeklyworldnews</div><div>There seems to be an cultural divide running down the Atlantic Ocean over which fictional time-traveller Razeghi was most like. <br></div><div>Time machine. Iranian Dr Who claims he invented a: State media pulls report on PC-sized box with powers to see the f... http://reg.cx/266TThe Register</div><div>Screw #NorthKorea, it's #Iran we have to worry about, they are trying to become #TimeLords! http://bit.ly/157UijY #DoctorWhoErrand Wolfe</div><div>Iran invents "time machine," beats Doc Brown to the punch http://ow.ly/k0lMF #ecnmagECNmag.com</div><div>Iranian news agency quietly deletes report that scientist invented time machine. http://wapo.st/Zcca99 http://twitpic.com/cimx5mThe Washington Post</div><div>National Geographic went more old-school with a photo from the 1960 film <i>The Time Machine</i>, based on the H. G. Wells story from 1895. <br></div><div>Iranian Scientist Claims to Have Built 'Time Machine'Ker Than Published April 12, 2013 It's not quite Back to the Future, but a young Iranian inventor claims to have built a time machine tha...</div><div>Some time after the Telegraph story went online, the Fars News Agency deleted their story, adding another layer of mystery. <br></div><div>To me this is proof that Iran did indeed invent a time machine, then used it to go back and delete the news item: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/11/what-time-machine-iranian-state-media-quietly-deletes-a-report-that-iran-had-built-one/Karl Sharro</div><div>Foreign Policy was among the publications to question the entire affair. Of course, the <i>time machine</i> was fake, but there are details of the <i>story itself </i>that don't add up, either. <br><br>For example, there is no state-run "Centre for Strategic Invention" in Iran. (It turns out, that's the name of Razeghi's own company, not a government agency.)<br></div><div>Oh, by the way, that Iranian time machine? Fake fake news story: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/11/fake_fake_news_the_iranian_time_machineBlake Hounshell</div><div>Arash Karami, who writes for Al Monitor, translated another interview Razeghi gave with the Tehran newspaper Shargh, in which he says that after the Fars interview, "he knew that this story would go off like a cannon and blow up the news." (More mystery: the letters in Rezeghi's name are transposed to "Zereghi" halfway through this post.)<br></div><div>Iranian 'Time Machine' Scientist Outsmarts Media http://iranpulse.al-monitor.com/index.php/2013/04/1759/iranian-time-machine-scientist-outsmarts-media/Arash Karami</div><div>Today came the official denial: a second story from the <a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9107160122" class="">Fars News Agency</a> and the state-run <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/12/297846/no-time-machine-registered-in-iran/" class="">PressTV</a> in which the deputy minister of science, research and technology, Mohammad Mehdinejad Nouri, dismissed the claim that any "time machine" had been invented or registered with the state. <br><br>"Such a claim has not been registered in Iran's State Organization for Registration of Deeds and Properties," he said.<br><br>"Making scientific claims is free for all, but registration of these claims as inventions should undergo certain legal stages based on scientific proofs and evidence," said Mehdinejad Nouri.<br></div><div>Iran officially denies it has mastered time travel #delorean http://shar.es/J3lB3 via @sharethisDamien McElroy</div><div>well that's a relief. -- #Iran : No, We Don't Have a 'Time Machine' http://abcn.ws/ZqUxhY #martymcflyLee Ferran</div>

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