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Defense News about East #MediterraneanSea Region by @BabakTaghvaee. I wrote for BBC & RFE/RL in the past. Now for @PtisiMagazine, @IsraelHayomHeb & @AFMonthly

Jan 28, 2023, 15 tweets

#BREAKING: Three massive explosions heard in #Isfahan 30 minutes ago. A building belonging to #Iran's Ministry of Defence was targeted by three explosive laden quadcopters of #Israel Intelligence Organization (#Mossad).

#BREAKING: #Israel Intelligence Organization (#Mossad) just targeted another facility belonging to #Iran's Ministry of Defence in #Karaj, west of #Tehran. New footage from the attack in #Isfahan 👇

All the roads to the targeted building of #Iran's Ministry of Defence in #Isfahan are blocked by security forces.

Massive explosion and fire reported in a Car Engine Oil factory in #Azarshahr Industrial Town near #Tabriz, a city in Northwest of #Iran. It is not known whether this is related to the #Israeli attacks in #Karaj & #Isfahan or it is just a coincidence.

For those asking why I said #Mossad has carried-out the attack. Answer is they are the only ones having the capability of doing this. According to #US DOD sources, all previous similar attacks including the one at the drone base of #IRGC in #Kermanshah was done by #Israel not US.

According to this video, not three but four bomb-laden quadcopters are used by #Israeli drone teams to target that building of #Iranian Ministry of Defence in city of #Isfahan tonight.

Another similar attack of #Mossad's drone teams took place in 2021 which targeted a Ballistic missile research & development lab of Self-Sufficiency Jihad & Industrial Research Department of #IRGC Aerospace Force near #Parand in southwest of #Tehran.

On June 23, 2021, drone teams of #Israeli Intelligence (#Mossad) used similar quadcopters to attack factory of TABA, where centrifuges for #Iran's Uranium Enrichment Centers were manufactured.

Another footage of tonight's attack at the building of #Iran's Ministry of Defence in #Isfahan shows one of the quadcopters directly hitting roof of the building.

Too dark to geolocate but it seems this is where people call it Tohid Ammunition Manufacturing Factory of #Iran's Ministry of Defence in city of #Isfahan which is now targeted by these tiny quadcopters. It seems there was No longer any explosive material in the site to cause fire

Update and correction: The news about attack to Karaj and Hamedan are untrue. Nowhere else has been targeted tonight.

Last night, some media falsely claimed that #Israel's attack at a building in #Isfahan targeted the drone production facility of #IRGC where Shahed-131/136s are being produced. But satellite images from PlanetLabs show these claims are all wrong!
image obtained by Def Express👇

State media of #Iran's Islamic Regime released a video in which the damage to the roof of targeted building inside Tohid Ammunition factory of #Iranian Ministry of Defence is visible. As we saw in the videos, these drones had small warheads with a weight less than 5kg.

Here is wreckage one one of three or four explosive-laden quadcopters of #Israel's Intelligence Service (#Mossad) that hit the roof of the building in question in Tohid ammunition factory of #Iranian Ministry of Defence in NW of city of #Isfahan last night.

According to the video, the targeted building had some sort of protective shed or net on the roof! This can protect the roof from danger of small quadcopters.

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