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We reprint a statement by the Tudeh Party of Iran following drone attacks take place on a military complex in Isfahan
An image from Planet Labs PBC,taken on February 2 2023, shows damage on the roof of an Iranian military workshop in Isfahan
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ACCORDING to Iran’s domestic media, “several explosions” rocked a central district in the city of Isfahan on a Saturday night of January 28 2023.
Mansour Shishehforoosh, the director-general of Crisis Management in the Isfahan Governorate, confirmed that “several disturbing noises” [explosions] were heard in the city, the reasons for which were “being investigated.”
However, subsequently, the Ministry of Defence of the Islamic Republic of Iran confirmed in a statement that one of its buildings in Isfahan had indeed been the target of a drone attack. “At around 22:30 hours on Saturday January 28, a failed attack, using three drones, was carried out on one of the Ministry of Defence’s workshop complexes.
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