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Explosion in south of Tehran leaves five dead and wounded

Reporting by PMOI/MEK

Iran, July 7, 2020—Following a series of explosions and fires across Iran, a massive explosion rocked the industrial town of Baghershahr located south of Tehran in the early morning hours of Tuesday, July 7. This enormous blast left two people killed and three injured. The mullahs’ regime is saying oxygen capsules exploding are the cause of the massive incident.

IRNA, the regime’s official news agency, wired a report citing the mayor of Kahrizak, a town in southern Tehran confirming the casualty count of this explosion. “Negligence by employees of a workshop involved with filling oxygen capsules led top an explosion at 3:20 am local time Tuesday morning, resulting in two deaths and three injuries,” the Kahrizak mayor said. “The oxygen capsule explosion was so severe that walls of the Saipa Press factory near this workshop were even damaged,” he added.

Baghershahr, with an area of 55 square kilometers and a population of 59,000, is located 13 kilometers south of Tehran’s Shahre Rey area. This area, described as “completely industrial,” suffered a fire in 2017 at a unit of the Tehran oil refinery that resulted in six deaths and four injuries.

These latest explosions have taken place exactly one week after last Tuesday’s explosions at the Sina Athar medical center in northern Tehran that left 19 people killed and 14 others injured.

The sound of a massive explosion shook northern Tehran during the evening hours of Tuesday, June 30, leading a major black fume rising to the air. Reports indicate the incident took place in the Sina Athar Clinic located in Shariati Avenue, inflicting severe damages to a number of nearby buildings.

This explosion was located in Tajrish district of northern Tehran and regime authorities have yet to provide an initial report about the cause of the blast, according to the state-run Borna news agency.

The casualty figure of this horrific explosion has reached 19 dead, including 15 women and four men. Another 14 individuals have been reported as injured, tallying the total number of dead and injured to 33.

Emergency authorities in the Iranian regime are warning there is a possibility of more explosions at the site.

If this was truly an incident caused by, for example, old aged equipment and facilities, the mullahs’ regime must be held accountable on this matter immediately. This is especially true considering the over $800 billion this regime has through the years spent on a completely unnecessary nuclear program and continuing to pursue a secret nuclear weapons initiative to obtain the world’s most lethal weapon.

Tehran has also wasted billions of dollars, that belong to the Iranian people, on advancing their ballistic missile program as a means to expand its warmongering across the region and beyond.

And while the Sina Athar Clinic is a medical facility, if indeed it is an outdated abuilding and was not renovated to meet safety standards, why does this regime have a long history of providing billions of dollars to the murderous Assad regime in Syria, the terrorist Hezbollah group in Lebanon, proxy militia groups across Iraq, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Palestine, and the Houthis in Yemen? Shouldn’t this money be spent for the good of the Iranian people?

And why does the mullahs’ regime spend millions if not billions of dollars for housing projects, schools, mosques and hospitals across the Middle East and even in Africa?

As long as such policies continue, the Iranian people will continue to suffer.

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