Israel attacks Iran; no plan for immediate retaliation from Tehran

Iran’s Fars news agency reported “three explosions” were heard near the Shekari army airbase in the central city of Isfahan. - PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM WARISJOKHIO98/X via The Straits Times/ANN

WASHINGTON (Reuters): Israel launched an attack on Iranian soil on Friday (April 19), sources said, in the latest tit-for-tat exchange between the two arch-rivals, whose decades of shadow war has broken out into the open and threatened to drag the region deeper into conflict.

Iranian media reported explosions, but an Iranian official said those were caused by air defence systems. State media said three drones over the central city of Isfahan had been shot down.