A massive explosion and fire shook a port on Saturday in southern Iran supposedly linked to a sending of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propeller, kill four people and hurt more than 500.
The explosion in the port of Shahid Rajahei occurred as Iran and the United States with Saturday in Oman for the third round of negotiations on the nuclear program that Tehran advances rapidly.
While no one in Iran suggested directly that the explosion came from an attack, Foreign Minister equally Iraní, Abbas Araghchi, who leads the conversations, acknowledged on Wednesday that “our security services pass sabotage and the murders of Givation given Givation cause a legitimate response.”
For hours, the authorities in Iran did not offer a clear explanation of what captivated the port, which is on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas, although they denied that the explosion had something to do with the country’s oil industry.
However, Puerto Tok in a “sodium cohlores fuel” in March, said private security firm Ambrey. The fuel is part of a shipment from China by two ships to Iran reported for the first time in January for the Financial Times. The fuel would be used to rejoice the missile actions of Iran, which had exhausted their legs for their direct attacks against the duration of Israel, the war with Hamas in the Gaza strip.
“According to the reports, the fire was the result of the inappropriate management of a solid fuel shipment for its use in Iranian ballistic missiles,” said Ambrey.
The ship tracking data analyzed by Associated Press put one of the vessels that is believed to carry the chemist in the vicinity in March, as Ambrey said. Iran has not recognized the shipment. The Iranian mission before the United Nations did not promote a comment request on Saturday.
It is not clear why Iran would not have moved the chemicals of the port, particularly after the explosion of the port of Beirut in 2020. That explosion, caused by the lighting of hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, killed more than 200 people and wounded more than 6,000. However, Israel went to Iranian missile sites where Tehran uses industrial mixers to create solid fuel.
The images of the explosion of social networks on Saturday in Shahid Rajajai saw reddish smoke coming out of the fire just before the detonation. That suggests that a chemical compound is involved in the explosion.
Shahid Rajaei has been a goal before. A 2020 cyber attack attributed to Israel went to the port. It occurred after Israel said it frustrated a cyber attack aimed at its water infrastructure, which it attributed to Iran.
The social networks videos showed black and undulating smoke after the explosion. Others showed blown glass of the kilometers, or miles, far from the epicenter of the explosion. The images of the state media showed the overcrowding injured in at least one hospital, with ambulances arriving when Medicens ran a person on a stretcher.
Mehrad Hasanzadeh, a provincial disaster management official, told Iranian State Television that they first responded to trying to the area while others tried to evacuate the site.
Hasanzadeh said the explosion came from containers in the port of Shahid Rajajai in the city, without elaborating. State Television also reported that it had a leg a collapse of the building caused by the explosion, although no more details were sacrificed.
The Interior Ministry said he launched an investigation into the explosion.
The port of Shahid Rajaei in the province of Hormozgan is about 650 miles to the southeast or the capital of Iran, Tehran, in the Hortuz Strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all passes traded with oil.