Drone attack hits Iran ammunition factory – reports - The Guardian

Drones person been utilized to onslaught a subject works successful Iran, with Iranian quality agencies reporting a large blast and showing a flash of airy astatine what was said to beryllium an ammunition factory.

Emergency vehicles and occurrence trucks were shown astatine the works successful cardinal Isfahan province. It comes amid tensions implicit Iran’s atomic programme, arsenic good arsenic the proviso of Shahed drones to Russia that person been utilized successful the warfare against Ukraine.

Some reports said respective facilities were deed astir Iran wrong a play of a fewer hours. The Guardian was incapable to corroborate those reports, but Iran’s IRNA quality bureau reported a occurrence astatine an lipid refinery successful the bluish metropolis of Tabriz, saying 1 idiosyncratic was injured. It did not accidental what caused the occurrence oregon if it was related to the incidental successful Isfahan.

Iran’s defence ministry claimed the drone onslaught was “unsuccessful”, with 1 drone changeable down by aerial defence and 2 blowing up erstwhile they were “caught successful defence traps”. There was “minor harm to the workshop’s roof”.

The lawman politician of Isfahan province, Mohammad Reza Jan-Nesari, said connected tv determination had been “no casualties” from the onslaught there, adding that “the origin of the incidental is nether investigation”.

Authorities did not elaborate connected the activities astatine the targeted site, northbound of the metropolis of Isfahan.

Iran has respective known atomic probe sites successful the region, including a uranium conversion plant.

There person been a fig of explosions and fires astir Iranian military, atomic and concern facilities successful the past fewer years.

In July, Iran said it had arrested a sabotage squad made up of Kurdish militants moving for Israel who planned to stroke up a “sensitive” defence manufacture centre successful Isfahan.

Israel has agelong threatened subject enactment against Iran if indirect talks betwixt Washington and Tehran neglect to salvage a 2015 atomic pact. Israel says Iran is seeking to make atomic weapons. Tehran denies this.

With Reuters