In Parchin, a site of the Iranian Ministry of Defense would have been targeted by an attack? A young engineer was killed last Wednesday in what Tehran calls a ” accident ” while the New York Times speaks for his part of an attack carried out by drones.
The military complex, located in the Parchin area, 60 kilometers southeast of the capital, was attacked by suicide drones, says a US official contacted by the New York Timess. According to Iranian sources, Parchin is a very sensitive military site where Iran is developing drones. A site which had been the object of an IAEA inspection in 2015, and which is suspected of having hosted Iranian nuclear tests, which Tehran has always denied.
To evoke the death of the young engineer on Wednesday, Iran officially evokes a ” incident “, but speaks of him as a ” martyr which leaves little doubt that it was an attack.
The existence of a drone research complex
This attack has so far not been claimed, but the New York Times sees similarities to past Israeli strikes on Iran and Lebanon and insists that the Parchin site would also house a research complex for drones, technology in which the country has made considerable progress in recent years.
Israel regards them as a major threat because they can escape his missile intercept systemthe ” iron dome “. According to an Israeli military official interviewed by the newspaper, the country is investing considerable resources to find and destroy these drones.
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