Officials say that the Iranian port hit the massive explosion, killing fire 5, wounding at least 700 people

A massive explosion and fire shook the port of Saturday in Southern IranThe alleged is associated with charging a chemical component used to make the missile motivation, killing five people and injuring more than 700 others.

Hasadad Hasanzadeh, the regional disaster management official, gave the affected number in an interview on government television. The previous death toll was four dead and more than 500 others were injured.

The explosion occurred in the port of Shahid Rajai Iran and the United States met on Saturday in Amman For the third round of negotiations on the nuclear program that is rapidly advanced in Tehran.

While no person in Iran was explicitly suggested that the explosion came from an attack, even Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchchi, who led the talks, admitted on Wednesday that “our security services have at a state of maximum alert, given previous tricks from the attempt to sabotage and assassination designed to provoke a legitimate response.”

Social media videos showed black smoke after the explosion. Others showed bottles of buildings miles from the explosion center.

For hours, the authorities in Iran did not provide any clear explanation for what caused the explosion in the port, which is located directly outside the Bandar Abbas, although it denies that the explosion has to do with the country’s oil industry.

However, the port shipment of “sodium missile fuel” in March, in the words of the Imbberry Private Security Company. Fuel is part of a shipment from China by two ships to Iran reported by the Financial Times in January. The fuel would have been used to renew the Iranian missile stocks, which were exhausted through its direct attacks on Israel during The war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

“It is said that the fire was the result of an inappropriate deal of a shipment of solid fuel for use in Iranian ballistic missiles.”

Ship tracking data that was analyzed by Associated Press was developed one of the ships believed to carry the chemical in the vicinity of the area in March, said Imbry. Iran did not recognize the shipment. The Iranian mission of the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday.

It is not clear why Iran had not transferred chemicals from the port, especially after that Beirut port explosion in 2020. This explosion, caused by hundreds of tons of very explosive ammonium nitrate, killed more than 200 people and wounded more than 6000 others. However, Israel targeted Iranian missile sites, where Tehran is used Industrial mixers to create solid fuel.

The social media footage of the explosion on Saturday in the martyr of Rajai witnessed red smoke that rises from the fire before the bombing. This indicates a chemical compound as being involved in the explosion.

“Return! Tell the gas (the truck) to go!” A man shouted in one video before the explosion. “Tell him to go, he will explode!

On Saturday night, the state -run -off news agency said that the Iranian customs administration blamed “stock of dangerous goods and chemicals stored in the port area” for the explosion, without a situation.

The martyr of Rajai was a goal before. Electronic attacks 2020 attributed to Israel targeted the port. It came after Israel said it had thwarted an electronic attack targeting its water infrastructure, which was attributed to Iran.

Social media videos showed black smoke after the explosion. Others of the glass from the buildings showed kilometers, or miles, away from the center of the explosion. Government media footage showed that the injured crowding in at least one hospital, as ambulances arrived when the paramedics rushed to one person on a stretcher.

Hasanzadeh, regional disaster official, said earlier on government television that the explosion came from containers in the port of Shahid Rajai in the city, without a situation. The State TV also stated that there was a collapse in construction resulting from the explosion, although no more details were provided.

The Ministry of the Interior said it had launched an explosion. Iranian President Masoud Bezishian also offered his condolences to those affected by the explosion.

The port of Shahid Rajai in Hormuzjan Province is about 1050 km (650 miles) southeast of the capital of Iran, Tehran, on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which 20 % of all passes circulated.