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Massive fire breaks out at Iranian oil refinery near Tehran

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A  massive fire has broken out at the oil refinery serving Iran’s capital, sending thick plumes of black smoke over Tehran

A picture taken on June 2, 2021, shows smoke billowing from the site of a refinery fire in the Iranian capital Tehran. – A fierce blaze broke out at a refinery in southern Tehran after a liquefied gas line leaked and exploded, the head of the capital’s crisis team said on state television. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

TEHRAN, Iran — A massive fire broke out Wednesday night at the oil refinery serving Iran‘s capital, sending thick plumes of black smoke over Tehran. It wasn’t immediately clear if there were injuries.

The fire struck the state-owned Tondgooyan Petrochemical Co. to the south of Tehran, said Mansour Darajati, the director-general of the capital’s crisis management team.

Firefighters believe it struck a pipeline for liquefied petroleum gas at the facility, Darajati told Iranian state television. He did not elaborate.

Associated Press journalists in central Tehran, some 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) away, could see the black smoke rise in the distance. Another AP journalist saw flames shooting into the sky from the site.

Mojtaba Khaledi, the spokesman for Iran’s emergency department, told the semiofficial ISNA news agency that 10 ambulances and other equipment had been deployed at the scene of the fire. Hospitals in the area are on standby as well, he said.

It wasn’t immediately clear what started the blaze. Temperatures in Tehran reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday. Hot summer weather in Iran has caused fires in the past.

The blaze came the same day a fire struck the largest warship in the Iranian navy, which later sank in the Gulf of Oman.

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2 responses to “Massive fire breaks out at Iranian oil refinery near Tehran”

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    https://t.me/abualiexpress/28987 Another explosion at a major oil facility, this time in southern Iran
    In recent hours, explosions have been heard at the largest oil and petrochemical facility in the Al-Ahuaz area in southern Iran – a Roman plant. A fire broke out on the spot. As a result, the supply lines to the refineries in Tehran and Isfahan were damaged. (Al-Ahawaz in southern Iran is a region rich in oil and natural resources and most of its inhabitants are Orabs).
    This is the second event in less than 24 hours. The fire that broke out yesterday at the refinery in southern Tehran has not yet been extinguished

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    https://t.me/abualiexpress/28989 A Gaza resident documents, with great hysteria, (speakers), 2 minutes from the Hamas metro attack in the Tel al-Huwa area of Gaza City during Operation Wall Guard. Tel al-Huwa is the area surrounding the headquarters of Hamas security forces in the city.
    According to the Gazan, who lives near Tel Elhua, these were the most difficult days of his life. Harder than anything that has happened in all the previous wars and rounds in Gaza.
    In these attacks, the IDF used bunker-penetrating bombs, according to the Blastinians

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