Iran has no plans to respond to an Israeli attack on an airbase in central Iran, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.
“The incident was a diversionary maneuver and is not worth mentioning,” ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said, according to the state news agency IRNA.
The action was so insignificant that the Israelis themselves did not want to take responsibility for it, the spokesman said.
Kanaani added that Iran does not want an escalation of tensions in the region, but that it will respond to any future Israeli aggression.
Several United States (U.S.) media outlets reported that last Friday, Israel struck an air force base in the province of Isfahan, not far from Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Israel has not officially commented on the attack. It followed an Iranian attack on Israel in which more than 300 missiles and drones were fired and used.
That attack was preceded by the death of two Iranian generals in an attack on the embassy building in the Syrian capital Damascus, which was also attributed to Israel.
On Monday, Kanaani stressed that there would be no review of the country’s nuclear policy after the Isfahan attack.
“Nuclear weapons have no place in Iran’s defense strategy and our nuclear program will continue to comply with international regulations,” Kanaani said, as reported by the Tasnim news agency.
The country’s nuclear security chief, Ahmad Haghtalab, said last week that in light of the Isfahan attack, a “revision of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear doctrine and policy would be possible and conceivable.”
