25 people have been killed and 750 have been injured in the fire after the smoke exploded significantly in Iran’s largest commercial port and surrounding area. Strong winds have caused obstacles to firefighting operations.
This is the key point:
- An explosion occurred at Shahid Rajae port in southern Iran on Saturday, leading to a massive fire with increased wind strength.
- Thick, black smoke spreads widely, resulting in the schools and offices of Bandar Abbas, located 20 km away and closed.
- Local media aired visuals showing choppers dropping water into a densely smoked, smoked transport container, even as survivors walked along a boulevard strewn with wreckage just apart.
- A powerful explosion was felt and he was told it was about 50 kilometres away, the Fur’s news agency reported. Furthermore, the shock wave was so strong that most port buildings were severely damaged, according to Tasnim News Agency.
- The cause of the fire is being investigated. State television cited the port customs office saying the fires were born from a storage of hazards and chemical materials.
- New York Times A person with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the explosion was sodium perchlorate, a major component of the missile’s solid fuel.
- Hundreds of people have been transferred to nearby medical centers as state transfusion centers issued a donation appeal.
- More than 1,000 km south of Tehran, Shahid Rajaee is Iran’s most advanced container port. Located near the Strait of Hormuz, the oil output of one-fifth of the world passes through.
- Despite the explosion, Bandar Abbas oil facilities continue to operate uninterruptedly. The state-owned Iranian National Petroleum Product Distribution Company said in a statement that the explosion “has no connection to refineries, fuel tanks, distribution complexes or oil pipelines.”
- The explosion was met by Iranian and US delegations in Oman for high-level consultations on Tehran’s nuclear program, with both sides reporting progress.
