A massive explosion on Iranian harbor kills 40, injures about 1,000 more

Mass explosion and fire that rocked the port on Saturday at Southern IranAllegedly linked to the consignment of the chemical ingredient used to make rocket fuels, he killed at least 40 people and violated about 1,000 others, officials said.

Helicopters and aircraft threw water on the furious fire through the night on Sunday morning in the port of Shaid Rajaei. The explosion occurred just like Iran and the United States encountered on Saturday in Oman For the third round of negotiations over the rapid nuclear program of Tehran improvement.

Although no one in Iranish suggests that the explosion came from the attack, even Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who had admitted that “our security services are in a high warning, given the last instance of attempts to cause a legitimate response.”

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian He visited the place as the containers appeared broken or thrown as to be rejected toys.

“We must find out why that happened,” said Pezeshkkian during the meeting with officials broadcast by Iran state television.

Provincial government. Mohammad Ashouri gave the latest mortal tull on Sunday and declared three days of mourning, Iranian state TV reported.

PIR HOSSEIN KOLIMAND, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, said only 190 of about 1,000 injured other hospitalized on Sunday, according to the statement transmitted by an Iran government website. State TV reported a fire under control and will be completely extinguished later Sunday. It was also stated that the activities continued in the port, showing the recordings of the container of the commercial ship that is unloaded.

Partner news network CBS BBC News reported The verified videos appear to show a growing fire before the explosion. The social media video showed a black smoke for charging after the explosion. Others showed the glass exhausted from the buildings of distant miles from the epicenter of the explosion.

There were a few details about what was extracted by the flame just outside the Bandar Abbas, which causes other explosion containers, the BBC news reported.

Firm Ambrey’s private security says that the port received a fuel chemical in Mart. It is part of the shipment of ammonium perchlorate from China for two vessels in Iran, first reported in January financial times. Fuel will be used to top up Iran rocket stocks, which tried for Israel during direct attacks War with Hamas in Gaza Trac.

“Fire, allegedly, the result of improper handling of solid fuel consignment intended for use in Iranian ballistic missiles,” Ambrey said.

In the first reaction on Sunday, the spokesman of the Iranian Ministry of Defense General Repa Talaein, rejected the reports that rocket fuels imported through the port.

“No type of import and export shipment for fuel or military application is (or) located at the port site,” he said at the state TV. He called foreign reports of the Bestemus rocket.

Ship monitoring data analyzed with associated prints put one of the vessels believed to be caused nearby nearby, as Ambrey said. Iran did not recognize the consignment.

It is unclear why Iran would not move chemicals from the harbor, especially after port explosion Beirut in 2020. years. This explosion, caused by burning hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, was killed more than 200 people and injured more than 6,000 others. However, Israel was targeting Iranian rockets where Tehran uses Industrial mixers to create solid fuel.

Social media recordings of the explosion on Saturday in Shahid Rajaei have seen smoke for reddish-perfecting smoke from fire just before detonation. This suggests a chemical connection as involved in the explosion.

“Come back! Tell Gas (truck) to go!” The man in one video shouted immediately before the explosion. “Tell him he’s going, he’ll be breathing! Oh God, this is blowing! All evacuates! Come back! Come back!

On Saturday night, the Irna State News Agency said that the Customs Administration Iran Wraps “the stocks of dangerous goods and chemical materials stored in the port” for explosion, without elaboration.

Shahid Rajaei was a target before. Cyberattatt 2020 Cyberattack credited to Israel. It came after Israel said he hidden cyberattack that targeted her water infrastructure, which is attributed to Iran.

The social media video showed a black smoke for charging after the explosion. Others showed the glass exhausted from building miles, or miles, away from the epicenter of the explosion. State media recordings showed an injured crowd in at least one hospital, and ambulance incoming as doctors per chase one person.

Hasanzadeh, Provincial Disaster Management Officer, previously told state television that the explosion came from the container in the port of Shahid Rajaei in the city, without elaboration. State television also reported that there was a ruination of buildings caused by an explosion, although further details were not offered.

The Ministry of the Interior said that he initiated an investigation into the explosion. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also offered sympathy for those affected by an explosion.

Shahid Rajaei in the province of Hormozgan is about 650 miles southeast of Iran, Tehran, to the Grand of Hormuz, narrow estuary of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all trafficked oils.