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Drones attacked a military plant in Iran's central city of Isfahan, Tehran said on Sunday.

Fortunately, this unsuccessful attack killed no one and minor damage was sustained to the roof of the complex.” “There was an unsuccessful attack by small drones against a defense ministry industrial complex and fortunately with predictions and air defense arrangements already in place, one of them (struck),” IRNA said in a post on Twitter, citing the country’s defense ministry. “An explosion has occurred in one of the military centers affiliated to the Ministry of Defense,” the deputy head of security for Isfahan Governorate Mohammad Reza Jan-Nesari told the semi-official Fars News Agency.

Seven actors in Iran have boycotted their own film to be screened at the state-sponsored Fajr Film Festival in protest to the bloody crackdown on ...

“Over time, all dictators have the illusion of imagining themselves as God, and they think they are absolutely right and eternal…but they are all mentally ill,” he said. Filmmakers and actors have been periodically boycotting the event, including in 2019, in protest to state violence against protesters. During this time, he explained, the festival meant nothing to him and even less so “in this bloody and grim year”. The Fajr Film Festival has existed since 1982, highlighting Iranian cinema for 10 days, during a period known as the Ten Days of Dawn (Fajr). Those who are withdrawing from the festival have taken a remarkable step because this means that they will no more have a chance of working in Iran, he said. “The film’s participation at any event is not and will not be my choice or decision.”

The Iranian Defense Ministry said it shot down two drones and a third struck the building and caused "minor damage."

A Defense Ministry statement said that three drones were launched at the factory. [ an engineer was killed](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/26/one-dead-after-accident-at-irans-parchin-military-complex) at the Parchin military complex in what Iran described as an "accident," but which [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/world/middleeast/iran-drone-attack.html) reported was a drone strike that fit the pattern of Israeli strikes. [ blow up a "sensitive" defense facility in Isfahan, ](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-israel-linked-agents-planned-attack-defence-plant-2022-07-27/)and arrested a group of Kurdish militants who they accused of working with Israel. [military and nuclear targets](https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-701373) in Iran, including the assassination of [Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the "father" of Iran's nuclear weapons program,](https://www.businessinsider.com/mossad-remote-controlled-machine-gun-kill-iran-nuke-expert-nyt-2021-9) and a purported cyber attack on [Iran's underground Natanz nuclear facility in 2021](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/11/incident-at-iranian-nuclear-site-targeted-by-blast-last-year). [stopped a "sabotage attack"](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/23/iran-reportedly-foils-sabotage-attack-civilian-nuclear-facility) targeting a civilian nuclear facility in Tehran. - Iran reported a drone attack on a defense facility in the city of Isfaham on Saturday night.

A statement from the Iranian Defense Ministry described three drones being launched at the facility, with two of them successfully shot down.

It “is not in the interest of the region and its future,” Gargash wrote on Twitter. Iran in October launched a military exercise near the Azerbaijan border. Meanwhile, Iran continues to arm Russia with the bomb-carrying drone that Moscow uses in attacks in Ukraine on power plants and civilian targets. Separately, Iran’s state TV said a fire broke out at an oil refinery in an industrial zone near the northwestern city of Tabriz. In 2020, Iran blamed Israel for a sophisticated attack that killed its top military nuclear scientist. The Defense Ministry only called the site a “workshop,” without elaborating on what it made. A third apparently made it through to strike the building, causing “minor damage” to its roof and wounding no one, the ministry said. The attack comes after Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in July claimed to have broken up a plot to target sensitive sites around Isfahan. It said the cause was not yet known, as it showed footage of firefighters trying to extinguish the blaze. That was a drone, wasn’t it?” the man filming shouts. Meanwhile, tensions also remain high with neighboring Azerbaijan after a gunman attacked that country’s embassy in Tehran, killing its security chief and wounding two others. A Defense Ministry statement described three drones being launched at the facility, with two of them successfully shot down.

The defence ministry said three drones were involved, but there was only minor damage to the site.

Local authorities did not comment on activities at the site, but called it a "workshop". No details about the cause have been revealed. The Iranian defence ministry says it has foiled a drone attack on a military facility in the city of Isfahan.

After a gunman assaulted Azerbaijan's embassy in Iran's capital Tehran, Baku says it is evacuating staff and family members from the country.

During a phone call with his Azeri counterpart late Saturday, Raisi said Tehran and Baku have inseparable historical relations and will not allow those relations to be affected by the two countries' ill-wishers. The Islamic Republic’s state broadcaster also talked to the seven-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter of the family, who purportedly were in the car outside the embassy. Iran’s state media broadcast confessions by a grey-haired man identified as the assailant, who claimed he attacked the embassy believing that his wife was held inside the building. Member of the Iranian parliament’s presidium Ali Nikzad has promised that necessary investigations will be done regarding the attack. There have never been such hateful and threatening statements against Azerbaijan,” he said, referring to warnings from President Ebrahim Raisi and other leaders against any border changes or threats to Iran’s transit route to Armenia, which is vulnerable since 2020 changes. Police in Tehran says it arrested the attacker at the scene and authorities condemned Friday's incident, claiming that the gunman appeared to have had a personal, not a political, motive. Tehran-Baku tensions have simmered since the 2020 war, when Iran moderated its past support for mainly Christian Armenia due partly to domestic pressures from both ethnic Azeri and Shia clerics supporting fellow Muslims. Earlier, the Azerbaijani foreign ministry said the shooting was the result of Tehran failing to heed its calls for better security. According to an article in Trend, the incident at the embassy occurred as “part of Iran's policy of hostility towards Azerbaijan.” A deputy of the country’s parliament said, "Iranian televisions and radios continuously promote hostility towards Azerbaijan. The terrorist incident against our embassy proved this once again." It is not yet clear whether the embassy will continue to function. The embassy staff had given him a written statement attesting that she was not there, but the man said he was sure his wife was in the building and attacked the embassy to prove that.

Iran and Azerbaijan disagree on whether Friday's attack on the Azeri embassy in Tehran constituted a 'terrorist act'.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to cooperate to clarify the dimensions of the incident. After exiting the car with the rifle in hand, he passes an unarmed Iranian guard sitting in a booth and enters the embassy shooting. CCTV footage released by Iran showed the attacker hurriedly arriving at the scene with his car and crashing into another vehicle parked in front of the embassy. Iranian state television also interviewed the man’s two young children, whom he had reportedly brought to the embassy and were in the car at the time of the attack, with the daughter saying her mother had travelled back to Baku – where she was from – but her father believed she was at the embassy. [Translation: I was at the hospital and learned about the treatment process of the Azerbaijan Republic embassy staff. The attacker, a man identified as Yasin Hosseinzadeh, was interviewed by Iran’s state television and said he stormed the embassy to “rescue” his wife, whom he said had disappeared after entering the embassy close to a year earlier.

After the attack, the Azeri foreign ministry said it summoned Iran's ambassador in Baku to demand justice and would evacuate embassy staff from Tehran. It gave ...

It gave no further details, including whether the embassy would continue to function. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called for "a comprehensive investigation" of the incident and sent his condolences to Azerbaijan and the dead man's family, state media said.

Israel carried out the drone attack on an Iranian military center for research and development midnight Saturday, the Wall Street Journal said in an ...

Russia has used hundreds of these drones to target Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. Small or quadcopter drones, however, cannot fly hundreds of kilometers to reach Esfahan, located in central Iran. [The WSJ quoted unnamed US officials ](https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-strikes-iran-amid-new-international-push-to-contain-tehran-11675004979?mod=hp_lead_pos10)and people familiar with the operation that the drone attack was carried out by Israel.

Iran's hardliner Kayhan newspaper has proposed to form a national 'soft war' headquarters to deal with what it called the "hybrid war of the enemy".

In November, Khamenei called the ongoing anti-regime uprising following the death of Mahsa Amini a "hybrid war" led by the “enemies”. Ali Fadavi, the second highest commander in the Revolutionary Guard, also said in October that the country’s ‘enemies’ who used to focus on ‘hard war’ against the Islamic Republic for decades have now adopted a hybrid approach, combined with soft power. Iran’s hardliner Kayhan newspaper has proposed to form a national ‘soft war’ headquarters to deal with what it called the "hybrid war of the enemy".

Au total, trois quadricoptères, des drones munis de quatre rotors, ont visé « une usine de fabrication de munitions » située dans le nord de la ville, a ensuite ...

En 2020, un attentat, perpétré selon Téhéran au moyen d’une mitrailleuse commandée par satellite, avait tué un physicien nucléaire de premier plan, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Israël n’a jamais reconnu de tels actes. Une attaque de drones a visé dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche un site militaire en Iran, qui a condamné « un acte lâche », dans un contexte de tensions liées au dossier nucléaire et à la