A photograph shows former U.S. President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
On Jan. 6, 2020, amidst escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran over the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, U.S. Rep. Paul A. Gosar, R-Az., tweeted a picture of former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, along with the caption 'The world is a better place without these guys in power': The world is a better place without these guys in power. pic.twitter.com/gDoXQu9vO5 - Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 6, 2020 However, Obama and Rouhani never met face-to-face during the former's term of office, and the image of the two men tweeted by Gosar was a fake created by altering a 2011 photograph of Obama's meeting with former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss nuclear-liability laws: Moreover, Gosar's critical caption for the fake photo ('The world is a better place without these guys in power') was inaccurate, as Rouhani is still very much in power as Iran's president. After the picture of Obama and Rouhani was identified as a fake, Gosar then criticized the 'dim witted reporters' who pointed it out and attempted to claim that the false and misleading aspects of his tweet were irrelevant: 1. To the dim witted reporters like @dmedin11: no one said this wasn't photoshopped. No one said the president of Iran was dead. No one said Obama met with Rouhani in person. The tweet says: 'the world is a better place without either of them in power'. https://t.co/zwLPPXniQh - Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 6, 2020 2. The point remains to all but the dimmest: Obama coddled, appeased, nurtured and protected the worlds No. 1 sponsor of terror. The world is better without Obama as president. The world will be better off without Rouhani. - Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 6, 
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