Officials insisted that all military and nuclear facilities located in and around the city of Isfahan were safe and no damage had been caused.
Iran’s space agency spokesman Hossein Dalirian in a post on X said there was “no air attack from outside” of Iranian borders in Isfahan or other parts of the country. / Photo: AASounds of heavy explosions were heard in at least two Iranian cities in the wee hours of Friday morning amid an alleged Israeli attack inside Iran.
"The foreign source of the incident has not been confirmed. We have not received any external attack, and the discussion leans more towards infiltration than attack," the Iranian official said on condition of anonymity.The United States received advance notice of Israel's reported strike on Iran but did not endorse the operation or play any part in its execution, US media quoted officials as saying.
Tehran says no missile attack was carried out against Iran, and Israeli military is tight-lipped about what many US media outlets say were Israeli missile strikes "Iran's air defence has been activated in the skies of several provinces of the country," the official IRNA news agency said."The cause of these sounds is still unknown, and investigations continue until the exact details of the incident are determined," the semi-officialOver the weekend, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles in a retaliatory strike after a suspected Israeli strike on its embassy compound in Syria.
The Israeli military has not commented on the reported attack yet, but it said a security meeting is currently under way at Israel's Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv.The US and Britain has announced widespread sanctions against Iran's military drone programme, in response to its weekend attack against Israel.
Tehran launched its first-ever direct military attack on Israel late Saturday in retaliation for an April 1 air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus by Israel that killed seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including two generals.
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