ABC News earlier reported, citing a senior US official, that Israel had launched missile attacks on Iranian targets.
Iranian state media said the country's air defense forces shot down three drones over the central city of Isfahan, hours after a U.S. broadcaster cited a senior U.S. official as saying that an Israeli missile had landed on Iranian soil. Announced.
Iranian state television reported that the explosion occurred in Isfahan as air defenses were activated and flights were grounded in several areas, including Tehran and Isfahan.
Airspace was reopened approximately four and a half hours after the incident, and there were no reports of casualties.
State broadcaster reported that three drones were seen in the skies over Isfahan “at around 12:30 a.m. GMT” and that air defenses were activated and “destroyed these drones in the sky.”
ABC News earlier reported that Israel had fired a missile at a facility in Iran, citing a senior US official. CBS News also reported that there was an attack by Israel.
Israel said it would respond after Iran launched a barrage of drones and missiles into the country last Saturday after an apparent Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus killed two senior generals. promised.
Iranian Space Agency spokesman Hossein Dalilian said “several” drones “successfully shot down the aircraft.”
“There are no reports of missile attacks so far,” Dalillian said on social media X.
Isfahan is considered a strategically important city and is home to several important military research and development facilities and bases. The nearby city of Natanz is the site of one of Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities.
Iran's Tasnim news agency reported, citing “reliable sources,” that the nuclear facility in Isfahan is “completely secure.”
There were also reports of explosions in Iraq and Syria.
“There was an attack on a Syrian military radar position,” Rayan Maalouf, who runs the anti-government website Sweida 24, which covers news from the southern province of Sweida, told AFP news agency.
The United States and many European countries last week urged Israel not to respond to Iranian attacks. There was no immediate comment from the White House or the Pentagon.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday painted a bleak picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that rising tensions over the Gaza war and Iran's attacks on Israel could spiral into a “full-scale regional conflict.”
“The Middle East is on the brink. We have recently seen a dangerous escalation in words and actions,” Guterres told the Security Council.
“One miscalculation, one miscommunication, one mistake can lead to the unthinkable situation of a full-scale regional conflict with devastating consequences for all involved,” he said, adding that all parties He called on people to exercise “the utmost self-restraint.”