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Blasts, anti-air fire in Iran city with centrifuge factory said hit by Israel in 2021
[IsraelTimes] State media claims incident part of drill at Revolutionary Guards base in Karaj, which hosts nuclear centrifuge assembly facility previously targeted in dronezap

A series of blasts, followed by anti-aircraft fire, was seen overnight Thursday-Friday in the Iranian city of Karaj, which has previously been targeted in a dronezap blamed on Israel.

Online videos showed explosions and anti-aircraft fire in the city, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Tracer rounds lit up the night sky, with the thud of blasts heard in the videos.

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency later attributed the activity to an unannounced drill at a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
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In 2021, a suspected Israeli dronezap damaged a centrifuge assembly facility in Karaj.

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claimed to have foiled that attack, but Israeli media reported that the facility was damaged in the strike. Satellite images also indicated damage to the site.

The attack reportedly hit the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company, or TESA. The TESA factory was tasked with replacing damaged centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear site and also reportedly produces more advanced centrifuges that can more quickly enrich uranium. While Iran maintained that the Karaj facility is used for civilian purposes, it has been subjected to United Nations
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, European Union
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 and American sanctions since at least 2007 for being involved in Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The US lifted those sanctions under the 2015 nuclear deal, but then reimposed them in 2018 when then-US president Donald Trump
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 unilaterally withdrew from the accord.

Last year Iran informed the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency it had stopped production at Karaj and transferred work to another site. The move responded to a "security concern" following the attack, with the new site "better protected," a European diplomat said at the time.
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