Iran says it has fended off an attack on a Defense Ministry ammunition factory north of Isfahan.

The state news agencies Irna and Isna reported, citing the Ministry of Defense, that several small aircraft attacked the facility on Sunday night.

The anti-aircraft system destroyed three aircraft.

The damage to the complex was minor, and there were no victims.

Videos shared by several Iranian news agencies show an explosion and fire at the facility.

They did not say who was suspected to be behind the action.

Rainer Herman

Editor in Politics.

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It is not the first time that small aircraft, believed to have taken off from Iran itself, have attacked a military installation.

In June 2021, smaller drones destroyed a centrifuge manufacturing plant near Karaj.

Iran then moved production to an underground facility near Isfahan.

Israel is usually suspected of being behind such attacks, even though the government in Jerusalem never officially claims responsibility.

On Sunday, meanwhile, the Ukrainian government made a connection to the war in their country, where Russia is using Iranian drones.

"War logic is merciless & murderous.

She consistently holds the authors & accomplices accountable," tweeted Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podoliak.

“Explosive night in Iran – drone and missile production, oil refineries.

Have warned you."

Operations of this kind expose the weakness of Iran's air defenses, which was also demonstrated by the assassination of the head of Iran's nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizdeh, in November 2020.

After the 2021 Karaj attack, former Iranian intelligence chief Ali Younesi said Israel had infiltrated institutions in Iran to such an extent that all leading figures feared for their lives.

At the weekend, the revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei, shielded from the public, visited an exhibition on recent military achievements set up especially for him in his residence complex.

On Saturday, a major fire broke out in a motor oil factory near Tabriz for unknown reasons.

Videos from the Fars news agency showed a sea of ​​flames.