A hearth broke out in Iran’s Tehran province on Wednesday, with smoke seen rising above a constructing within the metropolis of Parand, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported.
Footage circulating on social media confirmed a plume of darkish smoke billowing into the sky, with early on-line reviews claiming an explosion had occurred on the web site. Iranian state broadcaster IRIB later mentioned the smoke was attributable to reeds catching fireplace close to a riverbank near the constructing.
“The black smoke seen close to the town of Parand is the results of a hearth within the reeds across the Parand river financial institution… fireplace fighters are on web site and the hearth extinguishing operation is underway”, state media cited the Parand Hearth Division as saying. There have been no speedy official statements on casualties or harm.
Individually, in Shiraz province, an explosion was heard in a mountainous space on the outskirts of the town, although the trigger has not been decided.
The newest blast follows a collection of unexplained explosions reported round Tehran in latest weeks. Iranian authorities haven’t confirmed particulars of a number of of these incidents.
US–IRAN WAR IMMINENT?
The explosion comes at a time of hovering stress within the area because the United States has been reinforcing its navy presence within the Center East with further fighter jets, warships and air-defence programs, amid ongoing talks with Iran over its nuclear programme and the chance of doable confrontation if diplomacy fails.
A navy confrontation between the United States and Iran may start inside days and become a big, multi-week marketing campaign, based on Axios.
A White Home official advised Axios that the probabilities of US navy motion within the coming weeks have been as excessive as 90 p.c.
US forces have been transferring vital belongings towards the Center East in latest days. Open-source flight monitoring knowledge confirmed dozens of fighter jets — together with F-22, F-35 and F-16 plane — heading to the area together with aerial refuelling planes.
This comes as negotiators who met in Geneva for the most recent spherical of talks to ease tensions have reported restricted progress and agreed on preliminary ideas for a doable settlement, however main disagreements stay over uranium enrichment.
Hours earlier than the talks, Iran’s Supreme Chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, threatened america, saying Iran had weapons able to sending American warships “to the underside of the ocean”.
“The People continuously say that they’ve despatched a warship towards Iran,” Khamenei posted on the social platform X. “After all, a warship is a harmful piece of navy {hardware}.”
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