Israel carried out a strike against Iran. "No major damage"

On Thursday evening, US media outlets quoted a senior US official as saying that Israel launched a strike against Iran in response to an Iranian attack on it over the weekend.

Media outlets including ABC, CBS and CNN, citing U.S. officials, reported the strikes in the early hours of Friday Middle East time.

A U.S. official confirmed to CNN that the site targeted by an Israeli strike inside Iran was not nuclear.

There was no immediate comment from the White House.

In response to an AFP inquiry, the Pentagon's Duty Office said, "We have nothing to say at this time."

The Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported simultaneous explosions in Isfahan, Iran; Sweida, Syria; and Baghdad and Babylon, Iraq.

In Iraq, media outlets reported heavy warplane overflights in Erbil and Mosul.

Israeli Army Radio reported that the targeted military base in Isfahan was where the marches that attacked Israel originated.

Shikari base

Fars news agency reported that "three explosions" were heard near the army's Shikari air base near Isfahan.

Several drones were "successfully shot down by the country's air defense, and there are no reports of a missile attack at this time," Iranian Space Agency spokesman Hossein Dalerian said via Xbox.

Strike damage

Iran's official IRNA news agency reported no "major damage" in Iran, following reports of explosions near the city of Isfahan (central Iran) at dawn on Friday.

The agency stated: "After the activation of air defense in some parts of the country, reports indicate that there was no major damage or explosions caused by the impact of any air threat."

In the central province of Isfahan, where the explosions were heard, "important facilities, especially nuclear facilities, are completely safe and no incidents have been reported there," the agency added.

According to Tasnim, the General Secretariat of Iran's Supreme National Security Council denied reports that the body, headed by President Ebrahim Raisi, held an emergency meeting on Friday following the explosions.

Israel had vowed to retaliate after Iran launched an attack with hundreds of rockets and marches on the Jewish state last weekend, most of which were intercepted.

The Iranian attack followed a strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus that was attributed to Israel.

(Source: Sky News Arabia)