Hmmm, Nitro Zeus, or its successor may still be in operation.<\/p>\n
Report: Massive Explosion in Tehran, Blackout in Shiraz.<\/a><\/p>\n Tehran (AFP) – A gas tank explosion rocked Tehran overnight near a military complex that had come under scrutiny five years ago from the UN nuclear watchdog, Iran’s defence ministry said Friday.<\/p>\n The tanks blew up at around midnight, with Fars news agency saying “a number of social media users reported seeing an orange light” in the east of the Iranian capital.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Amateur footage aired on state television showed what appeared to be a massive orange fireball on the horizon in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n It showed what it said was the aftermath of the explosion in daylight, with at least two large cylindrical tanks damaged by fire along with a scorched nearby field.<\/p>\n The gas tanks “exploded in the Parchin public area. Thank God, there were no casualties,” said defence ministry spokesman Brigadier General Davoud Abdi.<\/p>\n “The incident took place in the southeast of Tehran due to leaking gas tanks which occurred in the public area of Parchin and caused the explosion.”<\/p>\n The blaze was brought under control by firefighters, and investigations were under way to determine the cause, Abdi told state television.<\/p>\n Parchin is a site suspected of having hosted conventional explosion tests applicable to nuclear power, which the Islamic republic denies.<\/p>\n It had come under scrutiny from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency in 2015.<\/p>\n Iran had refused the IAEA access to the site because of the nature of its work, but the agency’s then chief, the late Yukiya Amano, paid a visit there.<\/p>\n Fars, which is close to ultra-conservatives in Iran, said that according to “videos sent by (our) readers, this light was seen for a few seconds”.<\/p>\n It cited an “informed source” and said the site of the incident was not related to the military.<\/p>\n “At the entrance of the (nearby) Parchin military zone, there is no movement or traffic of fire and rescue vehicles,” the news agency added.<\/p>\n Fars said that the flash of light was caused by “an industrial gas tank explosion” near a facility belonging to the defence ministry.<\/p>\n Mehr news agency said a “terrible sound” was heard.<\/p>\n State television said various institutions were investigating the incident. Fars said police were involved in the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hmmm, Nitro Zeus, or its successor may still be in operation. Report: Massive Explosion in Tehran, Blackout in Shiraz. Tehran (AFP) – A gas tank explosion rocked Tehran overnight near a military complex that had come under scrutiny five years ago from the UN nuclear watchdog, Iran’s defence ministry said Friday. The tanks blew up … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56379,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56378\/revisions\/56379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}