A massive explosion and a fire rocked a port on Saturday in the south Iran Allegedly linked to an expedition of a chemical ingredient used to make a faergol of missile, killing eight people and injuring about 750 others.
Helicopters threw airwater during the unleashed fire hours after the initial explosion, which occurred at the port of Shahid Rajaei just like just like Iran And the United States met on Saturday in Oman For the third series of negotiations on the Nuclear Nuclear in advance of Tehran.
Person Iran suggested that the explosion came from an attack. However, even the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who led talks, admitted Wednesday that “our security services are on alert given the cases of attempted sabotage and assassination designed to provoke a legitimate response.”
The Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni gave the figure of the victims of an interview on state television. But there were few details on what triggered the fire just outside Bandar Abbas, who burned on Saturday evening, exploding other containers.
The security company claims that the port has received a chemical for missile fuel
The port took an expedition of “sodium perchlorate fuel fuel” in March, said private security Ambrey. Fuel is part of an expedition from China by two ships to Iran reported for the first time in January by the Financial Times. The fuel was going to be used to reconstruct the missile stocks of Iran, which had been exhausted by its direct attacks against Israel during War with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“The fire would have been the result of poor management of a solid fuel expedition intended to be used in Iranian ballistic missiles,” said Ambrey.
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The monitoring data of ships analyzed by the Associated Press placed one of the ships that would carry the chemical product nearby in March, as Ambrey said. Iran did not recognize having sent the shipment. The Iranian mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comments on Saturday.
We don’t know why Iran would not have moved the chemicals of the port, in particular after The port of Beirut Blast in 2020. This explosion, caused by the ignition of hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, killed more than 200 people and injured more than 6,000 others. However, Israel has targeted Iranian missile sites where Tehran uses Industrial mixers to create solid fuel.
Images of the social media of the explosion on Saturday in Shahid Rajaei saw reddish shade rising fire just before detonation. This suggests a chemical compound involved in the explosion – as in Beirut’s explosion.
“Come back!” Tell gas (truck) to go! ” A man in a video shouted just before the explosion. “Tell him to go, it will explode!” Oh my God, it explodes! Everyone is evacuating! Come back! Come back! “
On Saturday evening, the IRNA news agency managed by the State said that the customs administration of Iran blamed “storage of dangerous goods and chemical materials stored in the port area” for the explosion, without developing.
An aerial fire released by the Iranian media after the explosion has shown that fires are burning in several places from the port, with authorities later warning chemicals air pollution such as ammonia, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide in the air. The schools of Bandar Abbas will also be closed on Sunday.
Port a major destination for Iranian freight
Shahid Rajaei has already been a target. A 2020 cyber attack attributed to Israel targeted the port. He came after Israel said he had thwarted a cyber attack targeting his water infrastructure, to which she attributed Iran. Israeli officials did not respond to the requests for comments regarding the explosion on Saturday.
Social media videos showed black smoke smoke after the explosion. Others have shown blown glass outside the miles, or kilometers away from the epicenter of the explosion. Images of the state’s media showed the injured entry into at least one hospital, the ambulances arriving while the doctors rushed on a stretcher.
Hasanzadeh, the head of provincial disaster management, said state television earlier that the explosion came from containers from the port of Shahid Rajaei in the city, without developing. State television also indicated that there had been a collapse of the building caused by the explosion, although no other detail has been proposed.
The Interior Ministry said it launched an explosion investigation. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also offered condolences to people affected in the explosion.
The port of Shahid Rajaei in the province of Hormozgan is approximately 1,050 kilometers (650 miles) south-east of the Iranian capital, Tehran, on the Hormuz Strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all commercial cards.
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