Videos circulated by social media pioneers showing eggplant falling from the sky on pedestrians and cars in the streets of Iran, caused fear and surprise in the Iranian street, which is busy with the spread of Corona virus on a large scale. These videos raised a lot of fear before the local authorities explained this phenomenon, which started to create a state of confusion in the street.

The Deputy Governor of Tehran for Security and Military Affairs, Hamid Reza Godrezi, in statements published by "Russia Today", that the videos that were widely circulated were cinematic tricks by the Iranian citizen Amin Taqi Pour Irani, who works as a cinematic hoax designer in Hollywood. A sign that Taqi Pour visited Tehran, after the death of his father, but he was unable to return due to the suspension of flights due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus.