Iran fires at Israeli attack drones near Isfahan air base; Blinken says US 'not involved'

IRAN -- Israel, aboriginal Friday greeting section time, launched a retaliatory onslaught against Iran, a senior U.S. authoritative told ABC News.

Three missiles were fired from Israeli combatant craft extracurricular of Iran, according to a elder U.S. official.

The Israelis were targeting an aerial defence radar tract adjacent Isfahan that's portion of the extortion of the Natanz atomic facility, the authoritative said. The archetypal appraisal is that the onslaught took retired the site, but appraisal hasn't been completed, the authoritative said.

The onslaught was intended to nonstop a awesome to Iran that Israel has these capabilities, but was not looking to escalate the situation, according to the official.

The onslaught followed Iran's onslaught past Saturday, wherever the state sent a volley of much than 300 uncrewed drones and missiles toward targets passim the country, Israeli subject officials antecedently said. All but a fewer were intercepted by Israel and its allies, including the United States, officials said.

Iran's onslaught came much than six months aft Hamas terrorists invaded Israel connected Oct. 7, aft which the Israeli subject began its bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's warfare furniture person met respective times since the Iran strikes, and arsenic ABC News antecedently reported, astatine slightest 2 strikes were antecedently aborted.

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Iran's atomic sites were not damaged by the strike, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

In a connection released connected societal media, IAEA main Rafael Grossi says helium "continues to telephone for utmost restraint from everybody and reiterates that atomic facilities should ne'er beryllium a people successful subject conflicts."

On Friday, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied immoderate U.S. engagement successful Israel's retaliatory onslaught connected Iran.

Blinken was asked astatine a property league if Israel told the United States successful beforehand of the strikes successful Iran.

"I'm not going to respond," Blinken said. He went connected to accidental that "the U.S. was not progressive successful immoderate U.S. offensive."

After suspending flights astatine respective airports successful Iran pursuing reports of an explosion, Iranian authorities media said operations person resumed.

This is simply a processing communicative and volition proceed to beryllium updated.