{"id":92849,"date":"2026-05-01T13:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/92849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:38:24","slug":"air-defenses-in-tehran-countered-small-aircraft-drones-iranian-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/92849\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Defenses in Tehran Countered Small Aircraft, Drones: Iranian Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/militaryai.ai\/\" aria-label=\"WhatsApp Video 2026-01-06 at 04.30.24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Video-2026-01-06-at-04.30.24.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"1470\" height=\"620\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Air defenses were heard in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Thursday night after <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2025\/07\/21\/iran-air-defense-israel\/\" id=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2025\/07\/21\/iran-air-defense-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">they were activated to counter small aircraft and drones<\/a>, Iranian media reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sound of air defense activation has been heard in some parts of Tehran. It is not yet clear whether this sound is related to a defense test or to counter possible \u2018reconnaissance drones\u2019 in the sky over Tehran,\u201d the Tasnim and Fars news agencies reported.<\/p>\n<p>The agencies later said reports indicated that the air defense systems were activated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2024\/02\/19\/iran-air-defense-systems\/\" id=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2024\/02\/19\/iran-air-defense-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">to counter small aircraft and reconnaissance drones<\/a>\u201c, without providing further details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sound of the air defense stopped after about 20 minutes of activity and countering small aircraft,\u201d they reported.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran was now in a \u201cnormal situation\u201d, according to the news agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air defenses were heard in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Thursday night after they were activated to counter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29074,32799,32800,711,34,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-92849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-air-defense-system","9":"tag-autonomous-aerial-vehicle","10":"tag-autonomous-drone","11":"tag-drone","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116499599205030634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}