Iran claimed overnight from Saturday to Sunday that it had repelled an attack by drones on a military site located in Isfahan (center), according to the Ministry of Defense quoted by the Irna agency.
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“An attack, which failed, was carried out using drones on one of the Ministry of Defense equipment complexes,” the latter explained, adding that the attack did not cause any casualties, but only “minor damage to the roof” of a building, according to the agency.
He said one of the drones was destroyed by the site’s air defense system, while the other two exploded.
The attack, which occurred around 11:30 p.m. Saturday (3:00 p.m. Eastern Time), did not cause any disruption to the operation of the complex,” the ministry said.
The vice-governor of the province of Isfahan, Mohammad Reza Jan-Nesari, also declared on television that the attack had “no casualties”, adding that an investigation was opened to define the causes. causes.
The authorities did not give details on the activity of the targeted site, located in the north of the big city of Isfahan.
Iran has several known nuclear research sites in this region, including a uranium conversion plant.
In April 2021, Tehran announced that it had started producing 60% enriched uranium at the Natanz site, approaching the 90% needed to make an atomic bomb.
Negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, known by its acronym JCPOA, between Iran, the European Union and the six major powers, stalled after the United States exited in 2018. This agreement was aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring atomic weapons, an objective that Iran has always denied pursuing.
In recent years, Iran has accused Israel of carrying out several covert actions on its soil, including an attack, according to Tehran, using a satellite-controlled machine gun, which killed a leading nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in November 2020.
In addition, Tehran has been accused in recent months of supplying drones to Russia for the war in Ukraine, which Iran denies.