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 five people and hurt more than 700 another 700.
Mehrad Hasanzadeh, a provincial disaster management official, cools the updated figure of victims in an interview on state television. The previous toll was four dead and more than 500 other injured.
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The explosion at the Rajaei Shahid port occurred as Iran and the United States with Saturday in Oman For the third round of negotiations on the nuclear program that progresses rapidly from Tehran.
While no one in Iran suggested that the explosion came from an attack, the Minister of Foreign Affairs equally Iraní, Abbas Araghchi, who directed the conversations, on Wednesday he acknowledged that “our security services are of a warning alert alert alert alert alert Association given and associated with the given association and associated with the given association and associated with the given association and associated with the given association and associated with the association.
The social networks videos showed black and undulating smoke after the explosion. Others showed blushed glasses from the buildings away from the epicenter of the explosion.
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.
Mohammad Rasoul Moradi/Irna through AP) 
However, Puerto Tok in a “fuel of sodium perchlorate rockets” 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 was going to be used to rejoic The war with Hamas in Gaza’s 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 a chemical compound like the bee involved in the explosion.
“Return back! Return! Tell the gas (truck) leave!” A man in a video shouted just before the explosion. “Tell him, he will explode! Oh, God, this is exploiting! Everyone evacuates! Return! Go back! Return!”
On Saturday night, the Irna news agency said that the Iran Administration of Customs blamed a “material of dangerous goods and chemical materials stored in the port area” by the explosion, without elaborating.
Mohammad Rasoul Moradi/Irna/Wana (Western Asia News Agency) through Reuters 
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.
Hasanzadeh, the provincial disaster management official, previously told state television that the explosion came from containers in the port of Shahid Rajajai in the city, without explaining. 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. Iranian President Masoud Peeshkian also offered his condolences for those affected by the explosion.
The port of Shahid Rajaei in the province of Hormozgan is approximately 1,050 kilometers (650 miles) to the southeast or the capital of Iran, Tehran, in the hormuz narrow, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil change.