Kanal13A powerful explosion has just been reported in Shahriar, a city in Iran, causing significant concern among local residents and authorities. According to early information, depots believed to store ammunition and fuel used for military equipment have exploded. The scale of the blast has not yet been officially confirmed, and there are no immediate details about casualties or damage to nearby infrastructure. In addition to the explosion, there were also fires in some areas. REcall, a powerful explosion rocked the southern Iranian port city of eBandar Abbas earlier. The blast occurred in an eight-story building, with parts of the lower floors severely damaged and windows throughout the building shattered. Some unofficial sources have claimed that Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the IRGC Navy, was the target of the incident. Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has denied these rumours as “completely false”. Some domestic sources have attributed the incident to a gas leak, while local reports state that the building was not equipped with gas piping. While official sources have described the site of the incident as a residential building, videos filmed by passersby minutes after the incident show barbed wire, typically used at military facilities, installed on the compound’s courtyard walls.
Meanwhile, the IRGC Navy’s public relations office said that no drone attack has occurred on its bases in Hormozgan and that no buildings affiliated with the force have been damaged. Other reports indicate that sounds of explosions were heard in other Iranian cities, including Ahvaz near the Iran–Iraq border. The Khuzestan Province’s Deputy for Security and Law Enforcement reported five people killed and two others injured following what he called “a domestic gas explosion” in Ahvaz. The local governor of Robat Karim county in Tehran province denied reports of a security or military incident in the cities of Parand and Robat Karim, saying that the smoke observed was caused by a fire in dry reed beds along the banks of the Shour River.
