Officials in Teheran claim explosions seen at an ammunition factory in the central Iranian city of Isfahan was the result of the successful deployment of an air defense system against a drone attack, Reuters reports.
“One of (the drones) was hit by the … air defence and the other two were caught in defence traps and blew up. Fortunately, this unsuccessful attack did not cause any loss of life and caused minor damage to the workshop’s roof,” the ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency IRNA. This comes months after Iranian official claim to have thwarted a planned attack against an Iranian defense facility by Kurdish militia.
And in case you are wondering, yes, there are rumors that Israeli has a drone that can fly into Iranian airspace, but as this October 2022 report from the Arab Center in Washington, DC notes, there’s a smoldering war going on between proxies of Israel and Iran using the drone technology from those countries. So it could be a regional group using foreign technology as well, or maybe it was just those meddling kids with too much time on their hands.