The two sides are keeping a low profile after Israel’s strike, notes the New York Times. at a military base in the Iranian city of Isfahan in an attempt to downplay the attack in the wake of earlier international appeals for Israel and Iran to show restraint.

Television networks and some officials in both countries played down the significance of the attack, which Israeli and Iranian officials confirmed. State television in Syria, a close ally of Iran, did not even report the incident.

In Israel, officials they described the strike as a limited response to avoid escalating tensions. Analysts on the country’s morning news broadcasts said the strike did not appear to cause significant damage to military facilities in Iran, the same report said.

“Israel can do military maneuvers that are not noisy or cause significant military damage, but that convey the message it wants just the same,” Dana Weiss, a diplomatic affairs analyst for Israel’s Channel 12, told viewers. “And that’s what we saw them do.”

Iran’s state television reported that the military and nuclear facilities in the city of Isfahan were safe and broadcast footage of the city appearing calm with domestic media analysts commenting “no big deal.”

Social media users in Iranincluding those who draw information from the country’s military, they mocked the Israeli strikecalling it a trivial response to the roughly 300 missiles and drones Iran fired at Israel last weekend.

In a video widely shared online on Friday, a girl flies a paper airplane into an apartment building and compares it to the Israeli strike.

General Siavash Mihandoust, the top military official in Isfahan, told state television that the explosions heard there on Friday were not caused by Israeli strikes, attributing them to air defense systems that shot down “flying objects”.

Instead, some in Israel celebrated the attack, including those elected by the country’s right-wing parties.

Senior Iranian official: No immediate plans to retaliate against Israel after attack

Iran has no plan for immediate retaliation against Israel, he said in Reuters senior Iranian official, hours after sources said Israel had launched an attack on Iranian soil.

“The foreign source of the incident has not been confirmed. We haven’t had any external attack and the conversation is more about infiltration than attack.”the Iranian official said on condition of anonymity.

According to Reuters, an Iranian analyst also told state television on Friday that the mini drones shot down by air defenses in Isfahan were operating them “invaders from inside Iran”.

Iranian officials say that air defense shot down three drones a few hours ago, activating the sirens.

“Contrary to the rumors and claims of the Israeli media”, “there is no information about an attack from abroad against the central city of Isfahan or any other area of ​​the country”it reported Tasnim agency.

The complaints began in the Netanyahu-Ben Gvir government: the attack on Iran was “weak”

Dissatisfied, Israel’s Minister of National Security declares, Itamar Ben Gvir with Israel’s response to Iran, calling it “weak,” it broadcasts Bloomberg.

In his post on X commented in Hebrew monologues “weak”.

Ben Gvir is not a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and is not part of the five-man war cabinet which makes final decisions on military actions. But it is key to the survival of Netanyahu’s coalition, and he said after Iran’s attack that Israel had to fight back hard.

In an opposite spirit were the comments of Likud MP Tally Gottlieb, who was also quick to celebrate with her post.

“Good morning, dear people of Israel. A morning when our heads are held high with pride. Israel is a powerful country. May we regain the deterrent power”

Gottlieb, in fact, quoted a verse from the Psalms: “Moab would be my basin; on Edom I would throw my shoe.” An expression of contempt, according to the Jerusalem Post, recognized throughout the Middle East.