Israel carried out a successful suicide drone attack on a military facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan overnight Motzei Shabbos, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

According to the report, the strike against Iran, which would be the first to be carried out by the new government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, caused significant damage at the plant. It added that former Mossad chief Dovid Barnea mentioned Isfahan as a potential target at a speech last September.

The attack comes as US and Israeli officials are deliberating on ways to counter Iran’s nuclear program.

Iranian officials reported that three small quadcopters targeted a munitions factory in Isfahan, nearby to a site belonging to the Iran Space Research Center, which is under US sanctions for its involvement in the manufacture of ballistic missiles.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called the attack “cowardly” and claimed that only minor damage was incurred and there were no casualties.

“This cowardly act was carried out today as part of the efforts made by enemies of the Iranian nation in recent months to make the Islamic Republic insecure,” Amir-Abdollahian said at a press conference on Sunday. “Such measures cannot affect the will and intention of our specialists for peaceful nuclear developments.”

NEW: The strike on Iran's MoD facility in Isfahan was “specific, surgical & successful”, sources with direct knowledge told me. They added the facility was connected to Iran’s missile program: “4 different areas in the building were accurately targeted & the goal was achieved"

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(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)