Day: April 19, 2024

There’s been direct denial of a missile attack on Iran from the spokesperson for the country’s National Centre of Cyberspace.

Hossein Dalirian wrote on X: “There has been no air attack from outside borders to Isfahan or other parts of the country.”

He said Israel had “only made a failed and humiliating attempt to fly quadcopters [drones] and the quadcopters have also been shot down.”

Iranian state media have reported similarly, saying that air defense systems were activated in several areas of the country overnight to engage possible targets, but there were no reports of any direct impact or explosion.

It adds that all facilities, including nuclear facilities, are safe.

Meanwhile, Iran’s state news agency, IRNA, reports that flights have resumed at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport and Mehrabad International Airport.

Flights were earlier suspended across much of Iran as explosions were reported in the central province of Isfahan.

The Cyprus House of Representatives on Thursday evening observed a minute’s silence for the victims of the Armenian genocide, with the body pledging to “fight for a world where peace and justice prevail and where the atrocities of the past never happen again.”

In remarks, acting House President Zacharias Koulias noted that April 24 marks the “black anniversary” of the Armenian genocide.

Over the span of several years, he noted, millions of Armenians were “violently displaced, subjected to hardship and massacred, in a relentless attempt at extinguishing their existence.”

Koulias recalled also that the Republic of Cyprus was the second nation in the world to recognize the Armenian genocide, in 1975.