ISRAEL STRIKES BACK: In the overnight hours, Israel carried out what appeared to be a limited, retaliatory strike on a military base in central Iran near the city of Isfahan, with the first confirmation of explosions at the base coming from Iranian officials. The Israeli news outlet Haaretz reported the base is “home to some Iranian nuclear facilities,” but a U.S. official told CNN the target was not nuclear. According to a Syrian news agency, Israel also targeted air defense positions in southern Syria.
Israel had not publicly commented as of this morning, and Iran has not blamed Israel for what appeared to be a series of three explosions. Iranian state media said “three small drones” were intercepted by its air defenses and that there was no significant damage to the base.
