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On the news hour tonight, Israel allegedly strikes back at Iran, retaliating for last weekend's unprecedented

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just doors opened that you, that I didn't even know I was knocking on. Welcome to the news hour. There is an uneasy calm tonight across the Middle East

after both Israeli and Iranian officials had muted responses to Israel's

apparent retaliatory strike in Central Iran.

The region had been on edge since an unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel and Israeli

vows of revenge.

Nick Schifrin has more.

Nick?

William, it is not every day that something explodes near an Iranian military base during a time

of intense regional tension.

But today that is exactly what happened and all sides are trying to downplay it.

Near the central city of Isfahan this morning, Iran's air defense targeted what Iran called small drones.

But former military and intelligence officials tell

PBS News Hour this was an Israeli strike near an Islamic Revolutionary Guard

base and Iran's nuclear technology center. By day, Iranian state TV showed Isfahan quiet.

Life is going on according to normal. And a local Iranian military commander said

there's nothing much to see here.

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