Uncertainty dominates over what happened overnight from Thursday to Friday in Iran
What really happened during the night from Thursday to Friday in Iran? The vagueness still persists this Friday morning while neither the Iranian regime nor the Israeli government have reacted officially.
After several explosions were reported early Friday in central Iran, senior US administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told media outlets of an Israeli attack in retaliation for the rocket fire. unprecedented drones and missiles against Israel last weekend. The official Iranian agency IRNA, for its part, affirmed that Tehran had activated its air defense in several provinces early Friday after being informed of explosions in the Isfahan region.
The television channels NBC and CNN, respectively citing sources familiar with the matter and an American official, reported that Israel had announced to the United States on Thursday that it would take retaliatory measures against the Iran over the coming days.
For its part, the Israeli army told Agence France-Presse that it had no comment to make. ” For now “. In a message published on his X accounta Likud MP (party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu), Tally Gotliv, posted an enigmatic message on Friday morning, which seems to refer to this possible attack: “Hello, dear people of Israel. A morning where we hold our heads high, with pride. Israel is a strong and powerful country. May we regain the power of deterrence. »
In Iran, official media, such as the IRNA agency, reported that“no major damage” had not been reported following the explosions heard at dawn. Drones were shot down, but there was no missile attack ” so far “, specified the Iranian authorities. Some media tend to minimize, or even deny, the fact that the explosions heard near Isfahan are linked to an attack by the Jewish state. The correspondent in Tehran of the Lebanese pan-Arab channel Al-Mayadeen, pro-Palestinian and supporter of the “axis of resistance” to Israel, declared on the air, Friday morningthat according to him there was “no external aggression against Iran” and that Israel “deceives the world into believing that she responded to Operation Honest Promise”.
By citing “well-informed sources”, the Iranian Tasnim news agency also affirmed Friday morning that there was no “no reports of an attack from abroad”, “contrary to rumors and assertions made by the Israeli media”. An officer from the province of Isfahan, Brigadier General Siavash Mihandoostexplained on state television that the noise “relatively strong” heard east of Isfahan was “related to air defense firing on a flying object” and not an explosion on the ground. “We have had no damage or incident”he assured.