The government media in the country said on Sunday (27) that the death toll in a strong explosion in the largest port in Iran, Bondar Abbas, to at least 28, with more than 800 people.
An explosion took place on Saturday (26) in the Rajai martyr section in Porto, the largest container center in Iran, which breaks the windows inside a semolina circle of several kilometers, and tearing metal strips of containers and severe harmful goods, on the state.
The case occurred while Iran is performing The third round of nuclear negotiations with the United States in Amman.
The chemicals in Porto are suspected of the explosion, but the exact cause has not been explained and that the Iranian Ministry of Defense denied reports from the international media that the explosion may be linked to dealing with the incorrect solid fuel used in the missiles.
A ministry spokesman told State TV that the reports “are compatible with the psychological operations of the enemy,” noting that the area struck by the explosion did not include a military burden.
The Associated Press was killed that the British security company, Imbberry, who said that Porto received sodium Perles, used to strengthen ballistic missiles, which could have had incorrect treatment to the explosion.
The Financial Times reported in January two Iranian ships from China, which contains Direct attacks with missiles against their Israeli arc in 2024.
A fatal explosion
Black smoke pillars rose across the scene later this Sunday (27), and pieces of twisted minerals were widowed around the explosion.
Early in the afternoon, local time, the president of the Iranian Red Crescent Society informed the government media that the fire had been extinguished by 90 % and that the authorities said that the port activities had resumed in the areas of Shahid Rajai.
The Iranian Crisis Management Organization said that among the people who received a cure for injuries, 190 was still being treated in medical centers on Sunday morning.
A spokesman for the Crisis Management Organization in the country appeared on Saturday (26) to attribute the explosion to insufficient storage of chemicals in containers in Shahid Raja, adding that previous alerts have highlighted the potential safety risks.
Government spokeswoman Fatim Mohajrani warned of “early speculation”, saying that the final assessments will be issued after the investigations.
Negligence is often indicated as a guilty in a series of deadly incidents that have reached Iranian energy and industrial infrastructure in recent years.
Among them, fires in refineries, and the gas explosion in the coal and emergency mine in Bandar Abbas, who was killed in 2023.
Iran attributed some other cases to Israel, which conducted attacks on Iranian territory against The nuclear program in the country In recent years, last year, The bombing of air defenses in the country.
