On a massive explosion and fire Shahid Raji Port Officials said 14 people were killed and more than 750 others injured in southern Iran on Saturday, officials said, in an incident, it was allegedly associated with a shipment in an incident. Missile fuel chemical,
Mehrdad Hasanzadeh, a Provincial Disaster Management Officer, confirmed the statistics of the updated casualties on the state’s television, injuring the initial tolls and more than 500 from four dead. Explosion Bandar Abbas As Irani and American officials organized the third round Nuclear talks In Oman.
While the Iranian officials did not immediately credited the explosion for an attack, Foreign Minister Abbas Argchi, while leading the nuclear dialogue, said on Wednesday that “our security services are on high alert in view of the previous examples of the sabotage and the operation of the murder designed to provoke a valid response.”
Officials did not give any clear reason for the explosion, but denied any link to the country’s oil industry. However, private security firm Ambre reported that the port received a shipment “”Sodium perclore rocket fuel“From China in March, replenish Iran’s missile stockpiles after direct attacks on Israel during the Gaza conflict.
“Fire was the result of an inappropriate handling of a shipment of solid fuel for alleged use in Iranian ballistic missiles,” Ambre said. Ship-tracking data analyzed by Associated Press supported Embreen’s account, showing one of the fuel-carrying ships in the area in March. Iran has not publicly accepted to receive shipments, and its mission to the United Nations did not respond to the requests of comments.
Footage on social media showed red colored smoke rising before the explosion, suggested Chemical participationIn a video, a man shouted: “Go back back! Tell the gas (truck) to go! Tell him to go, it’s going to blow it! Oh God, it’s blowing it!
Later, Iran’s state-driven IRNA news agency cited the customs administration, convicting the “storage of dangerous items and chemical materials stored in the port area” for further expansion, without further expansion.
Shahid Raji Port, a major center for Iranian cargo, has been targeted earlier, with the 2020 cyber attack attributed to Israel. According to state media reports, Saturday’s explosion released the crowd with Windows Miles, collapse of the building and the injured.
The internal ministry said it had started investigating the incident. The Iranian President Masaud Pesashian expressed his condolences to the affected people.
Located in the Hormozagan province, Shahid Rajai Port is located about 1,050 km south -east from Tehran on the straight of Hormuz, an important route for 20% of the world’s 20% of the world’s business.
