AGI – Israel has struck Iran in the central region of Isfahar, where there are several military objectives including the uranium enrichment plant. The drone attack was not officially confirmed by Tel Aviv, which prefers to keep a low profile for “strategic reasons”, but by informal American sources, while Iran decided to downplay it so as not to have to keep the promise of a “response”. tough” like the one that Tehran had announced in recent days.
Explosions were reported in the area of some military sites this morning at dawn, but for now the extent of what happened is unknown. Since the Iranian attack conducted during the night between last Saturday and Sunday, in response to the Israeli attack on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus, the international community has been trying to contain Israel so that its retaliation is moderate and not likely to produce an exacerbation of the conflict.
As for Iran, it is trying to minimize the extent of the attack, the nature of which is however still uncertain. Certainly there are explosions reported by witnesses near the city of Isfahan and various military sites, including ballistic and military ones. During the Iranian attack 5 days ago, missile launches towards Israel were filmed starting from one of these sites. The Fars agency close to the Revolutionary Guards wrote this morning about three explosions at the army base in Isfahan, saying that air defense had been activated and that a drone had also been spotted to the northwest, in Tabriz, not far away from a refinery.
Iranian news agencies then quoted the army chief in Isfahan, Siavosh Mihandoust, as saying that the sound of the explosion heard by witnesses came from the air defense. “We didn’t suffer any damage, there was no accident,” he said. Since dawn, the official Iranian television has sent its correspondents to the center of Isfahan, to demonstrate that calm reigns there and daily life goes on as usual.
The minimization also occurred at the highest levels, given that President Ebrahim Raisi did not mention the morning’s attack in his Friday prayer press conference, after yesterday he had threatened “harsh retaliation” in the event of an Israeli initiative “even minimal”.
According to several sources, the missiles and drones launched had a limited range and therefore could have been fired from Iranian territory itself; It has already happened in the past that Israeli intelligence managed to carry out attacks of this type. According to the very first analyses, the Jewish State has chosen a relatively discreet initiative to give Tehran the possibility of not responding.
