A fireplace 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 stated the smoke was attributable to reeds catching hearth close to a riverbank near the constructing.
“The black smoke seen close to town of Parand is the results of a fireplace within the reeds across the Parand river financial institution… hearth 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 injury.
Individually, in Shiraz province, an explosion was heard in a mountainous space on the outskirts of town, although the trigger has not been decided.
The most recent blast follows a sequence of unexplained explosions reported round Tehran in current 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 military presence in the Middle East with extra fighter jets, warships and air-defence programs, amid ongoing talks with Iran over its nuclear programme and the chance of attainable confrontation if diplomacy fails.
A army confrontation between the United States and Iran could begin within days and grow to be a big, multi-week marketing campaign, based on Axios.
A White Home official informed Axios that the possibilities of US army motion within the coming weeks had been as excessive as 90 p.c.
US forces have been transferring important property towards the Center East in current 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 rules for a attainable settlement, however main disagreements stay over uranium enrichment.
Hours earlier than the talks, Iran’s Supreme Chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, threatened the United States, saying Iran had weapons able to sending American warships “to the underside of the ocean”.
“The People continually say that they’ve despatched a warship towards Iran,” Khamenei posted on the social platform X. “In fact, a warship is a harmful piece of army {hardware}.”
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