Israel’s ‘missile and drone’ attack on Iran:
Israel launched a ‘missile and drone’ attack on Isfahan, an important central province of Iran. Multiple explosions were heard in the province early Friday morning. However, only drones have been acknowledged by Iran. The country said that Israel had attempted a failed drone attack. At least three drones were destroyed in the air. Following the attack, air traffic has been suspended in most areas, including Tehran’s main airport. But after a few hours, it was active again. Besides, it has not had any impact on the country’s daily life.
Isfahan is the center of Iran’s nuclear program. All activities from training and research to increasing the country’s nuclear capability are conducted here. There is also an airport here. According to analysts, this is why Israel targeted Ispahan. This attack was carried out on a limited scale after talking to the allies. They are playing Iran through this. However, the United States said it did not participate in the attack. Meanwhile, world leaders have called on both sides not to escalate the conflict in the Middle —newsNews from different media including BBC, AFP, Reuters, and Al Jazeera.
Iran’s National Center for Cyberspace directly denied the missile attack on the country. Hossein Dalirian, spokesman for social media agency Xay, said there were no attacks from across the border in Isfahan or anywhere else in the country. Israel only tried unsuccessfully to send quadcopters (drones) and those quadcopters were shot down.
The top commander of the Iranian army, Major General Abdulrahim Mousavi, said that the explosions that occurred in Ispahan. They were the sounds of destroying drones. Three drones were detected in the skies over Isfahan at around 12:30 GMT, and were destroyed in the air as the country’s air defense system was activated, Iranian state TV said.
Earlier, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported that an explosion was heard in the northwest of Isfahan city early in the morning. The blast occurred near the city’s international airport. However, the news agency did not give any explanation about the possible cause of the explosion. Residents of the country also feel that Israel’s attack was weak. “I think they need to be hit very hard, not like this—if you ask me, what they did was child’s play,” Amitay Bendavid told AFP at his shop in Jerusalem.
Before this, on the night of April 13, Iran directly attacked Israel for the first time. They fired more than 300 drones and missiles. Before that, on April 1, a missile attack was carried out on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the capital of Syria. The attack killed several military officers, including Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps’ overseas Quds Force. Iran retaliated by blaming Israel for the attack.
Why is Isfahan a target: The city of Isfahan, about 4 hours or 350 kilometers south of Iran’s capital Tehran, is home to a nuclear facility and a military air base. Apart from this, there is also a huge missile manufacturing complex. Hamish de Breton Gordon, a former commander of UK and NATO nuclear forces, told the BBC that there are many military bases around the city of Isfahan. One of them was the target of Israeli attacks. We think it was close enough to where Iran was developing nuclear weapons. So it’s a shock for them.
De Breton, giving an idea of the purpose of the attack, said that Israel has mainly tried to inform about the capabilities and possibly the target as well.
The elite wing of Iran’s military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has said that any attack on the country’s nuclear facilities would have dire consequences. General Ahmed Hakhtalab, the head of the IRGC team responsible for maintaining nuclear facilities, also hinted that Iran could use nuclear weapons.
No damage to nuclear facilities: There was no damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities in the Isfahan attack, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. In addition, Iran’s state TV reported that the nuclear facility near Isfahan was operating “normally”. IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a message to X that Iran’s nuclear facilities should not be the target of military conflict and he urged everyone to exercise maximum patience.
Call not to escalate the conflict: Amid Israel-Iran tensions, the foreign ministers of the seven countries called for not to escalate the conflict and tension in the Middle East at the meeting of the Western-led G7 alliance on the island of Capri in Italy. The meeting was attended by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, UK Foreign Minister David Cameron, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa,
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie, German Foreign Minister Annalena Bierbock, and French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna. European Commission President Arsala von der Leyen said in a statement that it is important for all parties to refrain from taking any further steps for the stability of the region.
The United States did not participate in the attack – Blinken: In a press conference at the end of the G7 alliance, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, “I don’t want to talk about it.” All I can say is that the United States did not participate in this attack. At the same press conference, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said, “We call on all parties to exercise restraint.” G7 will work to avoid escalating tensions in the Middle East.
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