Posted: 28 Nov 2011 08:49 AM PST
FARS News is reporting on a huge explosion in Isfahan, Iran. No details yet.Isfahan hosts a Nuclear Technology Center, a Uranium Conversion Facility and a Zirconium Production Plant that helps make alloys for nuclear reactors.
According to the article, it happened at 2:40 AM.
For the occasion, a poster:
UPDATE: The FARS story has disappeared. Here's what the autotranslate looked like before it went down the memory hole:
Twitter updates/rumors:
A BBC reporter tweets his father in Isfahan heard the explosion.
Israel's Channel 10 reports that an explosion was at Shahab 4 ballistic missile site; unclear if it is the same one or where they got the information from.
Second Iranian news source confirms it, unclear if it was 2:40 AM or PM.
And another confirmation.
Iranian tweeters are all saying it was either an arms depot or an ammunition depot.
Isfahan's governor is now claiming that it was from a "military exercise."
Deputy governor says, "I dunno."
I've seen a few stories saying it happened near the gate to Shiraz University.
Mehr claims it was from a gas station explosion.
PressTV quotes officials denying the story altogether.
Elder of Ziyon
The Times reported on Wednesday that the mysterious explosion that rocked the city of Isfahan two days ago struck the uranium conversion facility located just outside Iran's third-largest city. According to the British newspaper, satellite images clearly show billowing smoke and destruction, despite Iran's claim that no such blast had taken place.
ReplyDeleteThe Times quoted Israeli intelligence officials as saying there was "no doubt" that the blast struck the nuclear facilities at Isfahan and that it was "no accident."