Spoof or real? It's harder to tell all the time:

"'Sources confirmed to us that Hurricane Sandy that is slamming the U.S. was set off by highly advanced technologies developed by the heroic Iranian regime that supports the resistance, with coordination of our resistive Syrian regime,' pro-government group News Network of the Syrian Armed Forces said in a Facebook posting."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/31/world/meast/syria-sandy-facebook-claim/?hpt=hp_t2