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The drones hit a military plant in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, Tehran said on Sunday.
“An explosion happened at one of the military centers affiliated with the Ministry of Defense,” Isfahan’s deputy security chief Mohammad Reza Jan-Nesari told the semi-official Fars news agency.
Jan-Nesari said the explosion left some damage, “but fortunately there were no casualties.”
State news agency IRNA later said the explosion was caused by a “small drone”.
IRNA said in a Twitter post, quoting the country’s Ministry of Defense: “There was an unsuccessful attack by a small drone on the industrial complex of the Ministry of Defense and luckily. Instead of anti-aircraft projections and dispositions already in place, one of them (hacked)”.
“The air defense system of the complex was able to destroy two other drones. Fortunately, this unsuccessful attack did not kill anyone and the roof of the complex was only slightly damaged.”
The ministry said the attack took place at 10:30 p.m. local time.
The plant is about 440 kilometers (270 miles) south of the capital, Tehran.
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Over the past few years, a number of suspicious explosions and fires have occurred around Iran’s military and nuclear facilities.
In July 2020, one Fire ripped through Iran’s Natanz nuclear complex, a site once key to the country’s uranium enrichment program, in Isfahan province, south of the capital Tehran. The Iranian authorities decided not to publicly announce the findings of the cause of the fire caused by the fire security concernsaccording to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
Next year, one Power outage occurred in Natanz on the anniversary of National Nuclear Day, with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) calling it an “act of terrorism.” The head of the Israeli military seemed to hint at the possibility that Israel was involved in the incident.
In October 2019, an oil tanker belonging to the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) was hit and damaged by two missiles. A spokesman for the National Iranian Tanker Company initially suggested that it could have been fired from Saudi Arabia’s soil, but that was later refuted and the Iranian government did not reach an alternative conclusion.
Earlier that year, a truck loaded with explosives exploded and attacked a bus carrying members of the Iranian military’s elite Revolutionary Guards in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, killing at least 23 people and wounding 17. A separatist group called Jaish al-Adl, or the Army of Justice, claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.
