Last weekend, Iran attacked Israel with hundreds of drones, cruise missiles and missiles. Is there now a counterattack?
In Iran, according to state media, air defenses have been activated in several provinces of the country. The state news agency Irna also reported an explosion in Isfahan province. According to the Fars news agency, the reason for the explosion was still unknown. It therefore occurred near the airport in the city of over a million people.
As Fars reported on Telegram, there is also a military base there. The US broadcaster ABC News reported, citing a US government representative, that Israeli missiles had hit an – initially unspecified – target in Iran. According to Fars, local authorities are investigating the incident, as a result of which operations have been suspended at several airports in the country.
Important facilities for the Iranian defense industry are located in Isfahan. The country’s largest nuclear research center is also located in the cultural city.
Iranian attack on Israel
Iran attacked Israel with hundreds of drones, cruise missiles and rockets on Sunday night. The background was a suspected Israeli-led attack on the Iranian embassy compound in the Syrian capital Damascus, in which two generals of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were killed at the beginning of April. Israel had announced that it would follow up the subsequent Iranian retaliatory attack with a further response.
At the end of January 2023, a Defense Ministry ammunition factory near Isfahan was attacked with small drones in Iran. At the time, Iran blamed Israel as the mastermind of the attack. The Wall Street Journal subsequently reported, citing people familiar with the operation, that Israel was behind the attacks. At the end of January, the Iranian judiciary executed four men in connection with the attack on the factory after a trial that was widely criticized internationally.
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