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Israel has launched a retaliatory attack against Iran in the early hours of Friday morning local time.

Iranian officials have confirmed a strike on a military air base near Isfahan in central Iran.

No damage or casualties however have been reported.

“Following the activation of air defense in some parts of the country to deal with some possible targets, reports indicate that so far, no large-scale strikes or explosions caused by any air threat has been reported,” Iranian news agency IRNA said early Friday Friday morning.

Missiles also struck Adra and al-Thala military airport and a radar battalion located between the city of Adra and the village of Qarfa, in southern Syria simultaneously on Friday.

Syrian reports on Friday morning indicated airstrikes had also targeted sites belonging to the Syrian Army in the As-Suwayda and Daraa Governorates of southern Syria, The Jerusalem Post reported.

As-Suwayda24, Syrian local media, said the airstrikes targeted Syrian military radar sites between Qarda and Izraa in Daraa, in southern Syria.

Residents in Erbil and Mosul in Iraq reported hearing the sounds of fighter jets as well early Friday morning, The Jerusalem Post said.

Bloomberg, quoting a U.S. official, reported Washington was warned on Thursday that an attack would be launched within 24 to 48 hours.

The world has been rendered helpless by Israel’s actions which could tip the region, and subsequently the world into war. Alarmingly, both sides have indicated they will target each other’s nuclear facilities if their respective nuclear plants are attacked.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) made this clear on Thursday.

“The Zionist enemy’s nuclear facilities have been identified, and the Islamic Republic has accessed the necessary data on all targets. To respond to their possible action, we have fingers on the trigger to launch powerful missiles to destroy the identified targets,” Brigadier General Ahmad Haghtalab, commander of the IRGC unit responsible for safeguarding Iran’s nuclear sites said Thursday.

On Israeli threats to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, he said these threats are not something new. In addition, he added, ‘the Zionist regime has over the past years carried out acts of sabotage and terrorism against Iran’s nuclear industry.’

Although global protocols and standards as well as regulations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) prohibit countries from attacking nuclear facilities, the Islamic Republic of Iran has always been ready to counter such threats, Haghtalab said.

“Using passive defense and advanced equipment and thanks to the dispersion of nuclear facilities across the country, we are ready to counter any threats by the Zionist regime,”the commander said, noting that the Islamic Republic will hit the regime’s nuclear sites using advanced weapons if it takes action against Iranian nuclear facilities.

Iran last weekend launched more than 300 airborne weapons at targets in Israel, but the U.S., Israeli, UK, Jordanian, Saudi Arabian and British military forces were able to neutralize 99 percent of them.

“As our actions demonstrated, the U.S. support for the defense of Israel is robust. It also demonstrates the long-standing security cooperation relationship that the United States has, not only with Israel, but with countries throughout the region, when it comes to addressing regional threats, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told a press sbriefing following that attack.

“Those kinds of things don’t happen overnight. Those kinds of relationships and the ability to work together, to interoperate together all played out and saved many lives,” Ryder said.

The Iranian attack was in retaliation for a strike on a consulate Building in the Iranian embassy in Syria, which killed sixteen people, including 2 Iranian generals, and five military advisors.