CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: A day after ‘drone attacks’ in Iran’s Isfahan threatened to blow up peace in West Asia, Iran has dismissed and downplayed Israel’s alleged role in the incident, stating that there was no proof yet that there “is a connection between these and Israel.”
Though there are differing reports regarding the weaponry used – US officials hint at missile strikes but Iran claims they were small exploding drones – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the drones took off from inside Iran and flew for a few hundred meters before being downed. “What happened last night was not a strike,” Amirabdollahian told NBC News in Iran. “They were more like toys that our children play with – not drones.” Amir-Abdollahian was in New York to attend a U.N. Security Council session.
Amir-Abdollahian insisted that the vehicles caused no “damage and no casualties” to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
According to Iranian media and officials, a small number of explosions were heard over Isfahan in central Iran in the early hours of Friday. This, they claimed, resulted from air defences hitting three drones. Iranian officials also claimed the attack was carried out by “infiltrators”, rather than by Israel