Iranian media reported on Friday morning about an explosion in the northwest of the city of Isfahan, south of the country’s capital Tehran, which was believed to be an attack by Israeli forces.
The city where the explosion occurred is near Isfahan airport and an Iranian army airbase, according to Fars news agency, which admitted the cause was unknown.
For his part, the airport’s communications director said in statements to Mehr Agency that flights to Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz in the south of the country were canceled.
According to ABC Television, a US official said Israel fired missiles at Iran in retaliation for the Iranian attack on Saturday, firing more than 300 drones and missiles, most of which were intercepted by Israel and its allies, including the United States became. United, noted the Europa Press agency.
Israeli media Haaretz, meanwhile, reported that the alarm was raised in northern Israel following this attack and that a senior Israeli officer had announced a possible plan to attack Israeli targets “in the next few weeks,” according to a Bloomberg report. 48 hours”.
However, an hour after the news broke, the official Iranian agency Fars noted on its X account that “some local sources reported that a sound resembling an explosion was heard in the west of the city of Tabriz,” the Fars journalist’s investigations show that there was no explosion in Tabriz and the air defense fired when it saw a suspicious object.”
According to Fars, Tabriz’s air defense is located about “2 or 3 kilometers” from that city’s refinery, which was “completely peace” at the time of the report.
He also pointed out that other “news sources” reported three explosions near the army base in northwest Isfahan and that “the station’s defenses were activated in response to an object that was probably a small bird.” “Army radar is said to be one of the possible targets and windows of several office buildings were broken.”
A few minutes later, the same news source said that “the nuclear facility in Isfahan is completely safe” and that the information was “false by some foreign media.”
Then, as quoted by Haaretz, Iranian state television said that “at around 12:30 GMT, three drones were observed in the skies over Isfahan. The air defense system activated and destroyed those drones in the sky.”
