More explosions in Iran

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) -Further explosions were reported Thursday night at yet another sensitive site in Iran, the Jerusalem Post reports. The latest in a series of blasts at industrial and infrastructural areas in Iran, Thursday’s explosions reportedly took place at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRG) missile depot west of Tehran.

The blasts follow a string of recent mysterious explosions in the country: On Monday, two people were killed in a blast at a factory outside Tehran; on June 26 an explosion was reported at a gas storage plant near Tehran; nineteen people were killed on June 30 in a blast at a medical facility in Tehran; soon after this there was an explosion at the Natanz nuclear plant; on July 4 there was a fire at a power plant in the city of Ahvaz; an hour after this there was a chlorine gas leak at a petrochemical company in the same area and 70 people were taken ill.

The Saudi TV channel Al-Arabiya said the blasts had happened at missile depots belonging to the IRG in an area southwest of Tehran, the Jerusalem Post reported.

The Iranian Mehr News Agency said explosions had been reported by social media users in the cities of Garmdareh and Quds and west of Tehran. Power outages were also reported after the blasts.

However, governor of Quds Leila Vaseghi told Iranian media there had been no explosion in the area and only a five-minute power outage. Local residents told the Iranian Fars News Agency that there had been no explosion but the power outage was 15 minutes long, not five minutes long like the governor had said.

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