A military factory in the Iranian province of Isfahan was attacked by kamikaze drones on January 28. According to Western media, Israeli agents used at least three quadcopters loaded with explosives, suggesting that these were strikes from inside Iran, and not from a neighboring state due to the range of heavily loaded quadcopters.

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Subsequently, there will be information about additional explosions and fires throughout Iran around the same time as the drone strike.. The Institute for War Research believes that these events were more likely random or misinterpreted, but hardly directly related..

" These reports most likely indicate that the regime raised fighter jets from nearby airfields in response to the drone strike, and residents incorrectly reported the sounds of military aircraft as explosions..

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As you know, the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces uses the attacked enterprise for the production of ballistic missiles and drones.. Unidentified sources told Western and Israeli journalists that the strike was "

At the same time, the Iranian authorities call the blow insignificant..

The Iranian Defense Ministry denied these reports in a public statement, arguing that Iranian air defenses largely thwarted the attack and that the drones caused only minimal damage to the roof of the facility..

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As of this writing, Iranian officials have not charged any specific participant in the drone attack.. They can avoid directly blaming Israel or any other entity until they decide how they will respond.. Iran's leaders may respond with attacks on US positions in Iraq and Syria or Israel in the coming weeks, ISW predicts.. This attack is also likely to further increase Iran's concerns about the alleged presence of Israeli intelligence in Azerbaijan and Iraqi Kurdistan..