Iran finally deleted a fire on Monday in a southern port that was shaken by an explosion when the fatalities rose to at least 70 people killed in the explosion, the authorities said.
Satellite images analyzed by the Associated Press also showed the destruction of the explosion, which injured more than 1,000 people.
The photos of Planet Labs PBC came when local messages from the website had further questions about the explosion on Saturday in the Shahid Rajaei port near Bandar Abbas.
The Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni announced that the fire had been released while the health officer of the Provincial EmergentCial Mehrdad Hasanzadeh gave the number of fatalities.
According to reports, the port took a chemical component that was needed for solid fuel for ballistic rockets – something that was rejected by authorities, even though it did not explain the source of power that caused such a destruction.
The explosions Saturday moved out the next step, which seemed to be in a row in which there were once other containers, the satellite photos showed up. It also crushed most of another building in the West.
A massive explosion and a fire that shook the port of Shahid Rajaei near Bandar Abbas, Iran on Saturday, was finally deleted on Monday. The drone video recorded the great extent of the destruction in the port after the explosion, in which dozens were killed and more than 1,000 others were injured.
The power of the explosion could also be seen, with two craters seemed to measure about 50 meters. Other containers nearby seemed to be smashed through the explosion and the intensive fire.
The fire burned on Monday, about two days after the initial explosion, which was just taking place when Iran started a third round of negotiations with the United States, about two days after the initial nuclear programs.
Authorities offer no explanation
The authorities still offered no explanation for the explosion.
According to the private security company Ambrey, the port received the chemical of rocket fuel in March. It was part of a delivery of ammonium perchlorate from China through two ships to Iran, which were first reported by the Financial Times in January.
The chemical, with which a solid lifting agent for rockets was produced, should be used to replenish the rocket stocks of the Iranian rocket that had been exhausted during the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip by his direct attacks on Israel.
The Iranian military contested the chemical show.
Social media film material of the explosion saw that reddish smoke rose out of fire shortly before detonation. This indicates that a chemical compound is involved in the explosion, as with the explosion of Beirut port 2020.
In the late Sunday, the Iranian semi -official Ilna news agency Saeed Jafari, the CEO of a Marine Services Company who worked in the harbor, quoted false statements about the detonation, which he called “very dangerous”.
“The incident occurred after a false explanation of the dangerous goods and delivered them without documents and tags,” said Jafari.
Another report by the Semiofficial news agency ISNA also claimed that the freight that caused the explosion was not reported to the customs authorities.
Only high -ranking authorities in Iran, such as the paramilitary revolutionary guard, could handle normal procedures on the port.
