Israel Launched Drone Attack on Iranian Facility, Officials Say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : But Isfahan is a major center of missile production, research and development for Iran, including the assembly of many of its Shahab medium-range missiles, which can reach Israel and beyond.
56% : After Israel adopted the new strategy, Mr. Bennett says in the video, President Biden, during a meeting, made a "sharp request" that Israel inform the United States in advance "of any action we take in Iran."Mr. Bennett refused, he says.
51% : And in May 2022, a drone strike targeted a highly sensitive military site outside Tehran where Iran develops missile, nuclear and drone technology.
44% :Weeks ago, American officials publicly identified Iran as the primary supplier of drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine, and they said they believed Russia was also trying to obtain Iranian missiles to use in the conflict.
44% : Mr. Bennett says in a forthcoming YouTube video shared with The New York Times that he decided to "create a price tag" and strike inside Iran in response to any attack on Israelis or Jews around the world.
43% : It is not clear why Iran would build an ammunition production plant in the middle of a city of roughly two million people.
43% : "The Iranians beat us, and soldiers die on the border," Mr. Bennett says in the self-produced interview, while Iranian leaders "sit quietly in Tehran and we do nothing to them."
38% : Iran made no effort to hide the fact that an attack had happened, but said it had done little damage.
37% : That attack was in Karaj, on the outskirts of Tehran.
34% : Iran's foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said at a news conference in Tehran on Sunday that "a cowardly drone attack on a military site in central Iran will not impede Iran's progress on its peaceful nuclear program."
34% : Iran claimed that there was no damage to the site, but satellite images showed evidence of significant damage.
26% : After "Iran tried to murder Israelis in Cyprus, in Turkey," Mr. Bennett says, the Revolutionary Guards Corps commander behind it "was eliminated in Tehran."
24% :This is Israel's first known attack inside Iran since Mr. Netanyahu reassumed office, and it may indicate that he has adopted the strategy formed under his two predecessors and political rivals, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, who expanded Israeli attacks inside Iran.

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