The president of Iran visited the injured on Sunday in A huge explosion Who rocked one of the main ports of the Islamic Republic, an installation allegedly linked to an earlier delivery of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant.
The visit of President Masoud Pezeshkian As the results of the explosion on Saturday at the port of Shahid Rajaei outside Bandar Abbas in the southern Iran province of Hormozan reached 28 killed and around 1,000 others injured.
While the Iranian soldiers sought to deny the delivery of Chinese ammonium perchlorate, new videos emerged showing an apocalyptic scene with a still resolute port. A crater that appeared depth meters was seated surrounded by burning smoke so dangerous that the authorities closed schools and businesses in the region.
Iranian state television described the fire as under control, saying that emergency workers hoped that it would be fully extinguished Sunday later. At night, helicopters and heavy cargo planes stole repeated outings on the fire in fire, pouring sea water on the site.
Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, offered the number of deaths and the number of injured in a statement made by a website of the Iranian government, saying that only 190 of the injured remained hospitalized on Sunday. The provincial governor said three days of mourning.
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Private security company Ambrey said the port had received chemicals on missile fuel in March. He was part of an expedition of Chinese ammonium perchlorate by two ships to Iran, reported for the first time in January by the Financial Times. The chemical used to make a solid propeller for rockets was going to be used to reconstruct Iranian missile stocks, which had been exhausted by its direct attacks against Israel during War with Hamas In the Gaza Strip.
The monitoring data of ships analyzed by the Associated Press placed one of the ships that would carry the chemical product nearby in March, as Ambrey said.
“The fire would have been the result of poor management of a solid fuel expedition intended to be used in Iranian ballistic missiles,” said Ambrey.
In a first reaction on Sunday, the spokesperson for the Iranian Defense Ministry, Reza Talaeinik, denied that the missile fuel had been imported into the port.
“No kind of imported deposit and export for fuel or military request was (or) on the port site,” he said on state television by phone. He called foreign relationships on baseless missile fuel – but offered no explanation of which material exploded with such an incredible force on the site. Talaeinik promised that the authorities would offer more information later.
We do not know why Iran would not have moved the chemicals of the port, in particular after The port of Beirut Blast in 2020. This explosion, caused by the ignition of hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, killed more than 200 people and injured more than 6,000 others. However, Israel has targeted Iranian missile sites where Tehran uses Industrial mixers to create solid fuel – which potentially means that he had no room to treat the chemical product.
Images of the social media of the explosion on Saturday in Shahid Rajaei saw reddish shade rising fire just before detonation. This suggests a chemical compound involved in the explosion, as in Beirut’s explosion.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin deployed several emergency planes in Bandar Abbas to provide assistance, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported.
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