Iranian Foreign Ministry: No plans for response to Isfahan strike

Iran has no plans to respond to an apparent Israeli strike on an airbase in central Iran, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesman.

"The incident was a diversionary manoeuvre and not worth mentioning," ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday, as reported by state news agency IRNA. "We will therefore not pursue it any further."

The action was so insignificant that even the Israelis themselves did not want to take responsibility for it, the spokesman said.

Kanaani said that Iran did not want an escalation of tensions in the region, but would respond to any future aggression on the part of Israel.

Multiple US media outlets reported that Israel hit an air force base in the province of Isfahan last Friday, not far from Iranian nuclear facilities.

Israel has not officially commented on the strike. It followed an attack by Iran on Israel with more than 300 drones and missiles on April 13.

This attack in turn was preceded by the death of two Iranian generals in a strike on an embassy building in the Syrian capital Damascus, also attributed to Israel.

Kanaani insisted on Monday that there would be no revision of the country's nuclear policy in the wake of the Isfahan attack.

"Nuclear weapons have no place in Iran's defence strategy and our nuclear programme will continue to be in line with international regulations," Kanaani said, in remarks reported by the Tasnim news agency.

The country's nuclear security commander, Ahmad Haghtalab, said last week that a "review of the Islamic Republic's nuclear doctrine and policy" would be "possible and conceivable" in the light of the Isfahan attack.