Iran Reports Explosion At Gas-Storage Tank Near Sensitive Military Site

Iran’s Defense Ministry says there has been an explosion at an Iranian gas-storage facility in an area with a sensitive military site to the east of Tehran.

The explosion took place in the “public area” of Parchin rather than the military site, Defense Ministry spokesman Davoud Abdi told Iranian state TV on June 26.

Western intelligence services believe Tehran had carried out tests at the military site more than a decade ago that were relevant to the development of nuclear weapons. Iran denies those reports.

Abdi said a fire caused by the explosion was brought under control and that there were no casualties. He did not provide any information about the cause of the explosion.

But the Fars news agency, which is close to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) quoted what it called “an informed source” as saying a gas storage tank had exploded near a military base.

According to Fars, the source emphasized that the explosion had nothing to do with the military base itself.

via www.rferl.org

Israelis, fair bet.