Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary and one of Jeremy Corbyn's most senior allies, has illustrated a tweet about Syria with a computer generated fake image of an Israeli jet bombing the capital of Iran.

The photo, which was taken from an aviation blog and posted in 2012, shows an Israeli F-15 fighter over Tehran, with large explosions in the background.

It was created by Al Clark and posted by David Cenciotti on The Aviationist blog in March 2012, accompanied by a clear explanation of what the image shows.

He also included a note underneath the mocked-up photo marking it as a computer generated image which is "not a drawing, nor a rendering or a photo".

Ms Abbott posted the image on Twitter this morning after listening to a BBC Today programme interview with Penny Mordaunt, the international development secretary.