Israel launched an attack on Iranian soil on Friday, sources said, in the latest tit-for-tat exchange between the two arch foes.
WASHINGTON/DUBAI — Israel launched an attack on Iran ian soil on Friday, sources said, in the latest tit-for-tat exchange between the two arch foes, whose decades of shadow war has broken out into the open and threatened to drag the region deeper into conflict. Iran ian media reported explosions, but an Iran ian official told Reuters those were caused by air defense systems. State media said three drones over the central city of Isfahan had been shot down.
's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares .MIAP00000PUS dropped 2%, after earlier diving as much as 2.6%, and U.S. stock futures EScv1 pointed 1% lower. MKTS/GLOBIran's state television said nuclear facilities where Iran has been conducting work — which Tehran says is peaceful but which the West believes is aimed at building a weapon — were unharmed.The Natanz nuclear site, the centerpiece of Iran’s uranium enrichment program, is in Isfahan province.
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