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Drones struck a military factory in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, Tehran said on Sunday.
“There has been an explosion at one of the military centers belonging to the Ministry of Defense,” Isfahan province’s deputy security chief Mohammad Reza Jan Nesari told the semi-official Fars news agency.
Jan-Nesari said the blast left some damage, but “fortunately there were no casualties.”
State news agency IRNA later said the explosion was caused by a “small drone”.
“Attacks by small drones on the Defense Ministry’s industrial complex failed, but fortunately one of them (attacked), as predictions and air defenses were already in place,” IRNA said. He posted it on Twitter, citing the ministry.
“The complex’s air defense system was able to destroy two other drones. ”
The ministry said the attack occurred at 10:30 pm local time.
The power station is located approximately 440 kilometers (270 miles) south of Tehran.
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In recent years, there have been several explosions and suspicious fires near Iranian military and nuclear facilities.
In July 2020, a fire broke out at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, a key site in Iran’s uranium enrichment program in the province of Isfahan, south of the capital Tehran. Iranian authorities have decided not to publicly release the findings of their investigation into the cause of the fire. security concernsaccording to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
The following year, on the anniversary of National Nuclear Day, a power outage occurred in Natanz in what Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency (AEOI) called an “act of terror.” The Israeli military commander appeared to hint at possible Israeli involvement in the incident.
In October 2019, an oil tanker belonging to the state-owned Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) was hit and damaged by two missiles. A spokesman for the Iranian State Tanker Company initially suggested it may have been launched from a Saudi home base, but that was later dismissed and the Iranian government did not come to a different conclusion.
Earlier that year, at least 23 people were killed and 17 injured when a truck loaded with explosives exploded and crashed into a bus carrying members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps in the southeastern province of Sistan-Balchestan. bottom. The Justice Force claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing.
