{"id":38781,"date":"2024-04-19T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38781"},"modified":"2024-04-19T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:38:33","slug":"tehran-plays-down-reported-israeli-attacks-signals-no-further-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38781","title":{"rendered":"Tehran plays down reported Israeli attacks, signals no further retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DUBAI\/JERUSALEM, April 19- Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation &#8211; a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The limited scale of the attack and Iran&#8217;s muted response both appeared to signal a successful effort by diplomats who have been working round the clock to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/reaction-israels-military-response-irans-attack-israel-2024-04-19\/\">avert all-out war<\/a> since an Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel last Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian media and officials described a small number of explosions, which they said resulted from Iran&#8217;s air defences hitting three drones over the city of Isfahan. Notably, they referred to the incident as an attack by &#8220;infiltrators&#8221;, rather than by Israel, obviating the need for retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Iranian official told Reuters there were no plans to respond against Israel for the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The foreign source of the incident has not been confirmed. We have not received any external attack, and the discussion leans more towards infiltration than attack,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: DUBAI\/JERUSALEM, April 19- Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation &#8211; a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war. The limited scale of the attack and Iran&#8217;s muted response both appeared to signal a successful effort by diplomats who have been working round the clock to avert all-out war since an Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel last Saturday. Iranian media and officials described a small number of explosions, which they said resulted from&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38783,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38781\/revisions\/38783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}