Massive explosion And on Saturday, the fire was swinging on Luka in the south of Irana with a chemical ingredient, which was used to make a drive rocket, killing four people and injuring more than 500 others.

Explosion at the port of Shahid Rajaei happened as Iran and the United States met on Saturday in Oman For the third round of negotiations on Tehran, which is rapidly progressing the nuclear program.

Although no one in Iran has suggested that the explosion has been derived from the attack, even the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who conducts talks on Wednesday, admitted that “our security services are in great warning with regard to the past cases of sabotage and assortment intended to encourage a legitimate response.”

Luke reportedly received a rocket fuel chemical

The Iran authorities in Iran did not provide a clear explanation in Iran what caused the explosion in the port, which is right outside the Bandar Abbas, although they denied that the explosion had anything to do with the country’s oil industry.

However, in March, Luka took over the shipment “sodium perclass of rocket fuel,” said Ambrey’s private security. The fuel is part of the shipment from China for two vessels to Iran, who first reported the Financial Times in January. Fuel will be used to complement Iranian missile stocks, which were spent by direct attacks on Israel during The war with the Hamas in the gauze belt.

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“The fire was reportedly the result of irregular handling of a solid fuel consignment for use in Iranian ballistic rockets,” Ambery said.

The monitoring of the shipping of the ship analyzed by Associated Press has set one of the vessels believed to carry a chemical nearby in March, as Ambry said. Iran did not acknowledge taking the shipment. The Iranian mission in the United Nations did not immediately respond to the request for a comment on Saturday.

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

Social networks on Saturday in Shahida Rajaei have seen smoke from a reddish color rising from the fire just before the detonation. This suggests that the chemical compound that is involved in the explosion.

“Return back! Tell the gas (truck) to go!” In one video he yelled just before the explosion. “Tell him to go, it will be split! Oh, God, this is blowing! Everyone evacuates! Come back!”

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

Porci main destination for Iranian burden

Shahid Rajaei was the target before. Cyberattack of 2020 touched by Israel aimed at Luke. He came after Israel said that he had prevented Cyber ​​-a financial focused on his water infrastructure, which he attributed to Iran.

Videos on social media showed black smoke after the explosion. Others showed a glass blow of miles, or miles, far from the epicenter of the explosion. State media shots showed injured crowds in at least one hospital, and ambulances arrived while medical players rushed to one person on the carrier.

Mehrdad Hasanzadeh, a provincial manner for disaster management, told Iranian state television that the first answers were trying to reach the area, while others were trying to evacuate the place.

Hasanzadeh said the explosion came from a container at the port of Shahid Rajaei in the city, without elaboration. State Television also reported that there was a collapse of a building caused by an explosion, although no further details were offered.

The Ministry of the Interior said it had launched an investigation into the explosion. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also expressed condolences to those affected in the explosion.

The Luka Shahid Rajaei in the Province of Hormozgan is about 1,050 kilometers (650 miles) southeast of the Iranian capital, Teheran, on the Hormuz Strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil pass.

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