Isfahan blast came as refinery fire broke out in country’s north-west and 5.9-magnitude quake hit
Photograph: UGC/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: UGC/AFP/Getty ImagesBomb-carrying drones targeted an Iranian defence factory in the central city of Isfahan overnight, authorities have said, causing damage at the plant amid heightened regional and international tensions engulfing the Islamic Republic.
Iranian state television’s English-language arm, Press TV, aired mobile phone video apparently showing the moment the drone struck along the busy Imam Khomeini expressway that heads north-west out of Isfahan, one of several routes to the holy city of Qom and Tehran, Iran’s capital. A small crowd gathered, drawn by anti-aircraft fire, watching as an explosion and sparks struck a dark building.
The defence ministry described the site as a “workshop” without elaborating on what it made. Isfahan, 215 miles south of Tehran, is home to both a large airbase built for its fleet of American-made F-14 fighter jets and its nuclear fuel research and production centre. State TV also said the magnitude-5.9 earthquake killed three people and injured 816 others in rural areas in West Azerbaijan province, damaging buildings in many villages.
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