{"id":443432,"date":"2024-04-19T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/04\/19\/israel-strikes-hit-iran-airport-tehran-says-shot-down-several-drones-10-facts\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:23:00","slug":"israel-strikes-hit-iran-airport-tehran-says-shot-down-several-drones-10-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/04\/19\/israel-strikes-hit-iran-airport-tehran-says-shot-down-several-drones-10-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Strikes Hit Iran Airport, Tehran Says Shot Down ‘Several Drones’: 10 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran-Israel war has sent tensions soaring in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIran activated its air-defence system today morning amid reports of missile and drone strikes by Israel. Israel fired missile at an Iran airport, ABC News reported citing a US official. Local media said that loud explosion was heard at Isfahan. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Here are 10 facts about the big story:<\/h2>\n
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    Israel launched a strike against Iran in retaliation for its weekend attack, US media reported.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Iran activated its air defense system over several cities, state media reported, after the country’s official broadcaster said explosions were heard near the central city of Isfahan.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Several Iranian nuclear sites are located in Isfahan province, including Natanz, centerpiece of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Though some media reports said that missiles had been fired, Iran said that they have shot down several drones but there had been “no missile attack for now”.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Several drones “have been successfully shot down by the country’s air defence, there are no reports of a missile attack for now,” Iran’s space agency spokesman Hossein Dalirian said on X.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Israel<\/a> military says ‘don’t have comment at this time’ after reports of blasts in Iran, reports AFP.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport was closed to all flights, according to a notice to airmen posted on a US Federal Aviation Administration database.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Some Emirates and Flydubai flights that were flying over Iran early on Friday made sudden sharp turns away from the airspace, according to flight paths shown on tracking website Flightradar24.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Israel had warned it would hit back after Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel over the weekend. Most of them were intercepted.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    That strike came in the wake of an attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus widely blamed on Israel.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    [ad_1] Iran-Israel war has sent tensions soaring in the Middle East. New Delhi: Iran activated its air-defence system today morning amid reports of missile and drone strikes by Israel. Israel fired missile at an Iran airport, ABC News reported citing a US official. Local media said that loud explosion was heard at Isfahan. Here are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11472,413711,430471,514849,141,516612,126671,430482,382444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}