Tehran’s top diplomat has refused to blame Israel for Friday’s attack on the country
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has downplayed the significance of Friday’s drone attack on the country, saying that it was of a minor scale and involved primitive hardware.
The claims by some media outlets that explosions in the skies above the Iranian city of Isfahan, which hosts a major airbase, were a retaliatory strike by Israel are “not accurate,” Amirabdollahian said in an interview with NBC News on Saturday.
“What happened last night was not a strike,” he insisted, adding that the attack involved just two or three small UAVs, which “were more like toys that our children play with, not drones.”
The UAVs “took off from inside Iran, flew for a hundred meters and then they were struck by our air defense,” the minister added.
Israel, which typically neither confirms nor denies operations on foreign soil, declined to comment on whether it was involved in the Isfahan attack.
According to the Iranian foreign minister, Tehran is not planning any further actions against Israel.
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