(Chuck Holton)Live Breaking from Iraq: Iranian Port Destroyed by Huge Explosion

Chuck Holton on CBN News ^ | April 26, 2025 | Chuck Holton

[tired&retired]

Huge explosion of 24 shipping containers of sodium perchlorate received from China for use in Iranian missiles in the port city of Bandar Abbas, Iran.

This chemical is more explosive than ammonium sulfate. He estimates it is about 2X the size of the Beirut Lebanon explosion.

This shipment by China was illegal. Israel was aware of the shipment.

[HYPOCRACY]

But Google is iut of the censorship business!/s.

Kudlow was saying they shouldn’t be broken up. I rarely disagree with him but that company is pure evil and should be divested of its monopoly on information. Its search engine sucks now too. The first page is all ads.

[LukeL]

Words like Hitler or suicide will get you demonetized and low on the algorithm. Same video with words like mustached German and unalive yourself will not be censored.

[Mark17]

My second thought is maybe dont play around with dangerous chemicals. Sometimes things end badly.

My guess is, since it probably has to do with their ballistic missile program, they probably don’t care much, if their workers are killed or injured, handling the stuff.

[flamberge]

Here’s a close video of what looks like a chemical like fire before the huge explosion...

I wonder how that video was recovered.

It does not look like anyone in that video could have survived the explosion if it was as big as has been reported.

[Secret Agent Man]

Well i do know these kind of regimes really dont like major setbacks to their weapons programs. Or really anything else they are in control of.

[njslim]

PEPCON explosion Henderson Nevada MAY 1988

Ammonium Perhlorate explosion equivalent of small nuclear
weapon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster

[flamberge]

My first thought is I’d like to see the video.

There are several videos of this event now published by the news services. Some of them caught the entire sequence of the explosion and it was indeed massive.

Nobody within 500 feet of that blast could have survived.

Again, I wonder where that first video came from that shows a fire that supposedly started the explosion. The cameraman could not have survived. I don't see how even the camera could have survived.

Perhaps somebody who has more experience with explosions can offer an explanation.

[Mark17]

Yes, that too. 👍

[verum ago]

(Chuck Holton)Live Breaking from Iraq: Iranian Port Destroyed by Huge Explosion

I get the gentleman is quite literally reporting from within Iraq, but does anyone else find that headline construction a little weird, like it's implying the newsworthy event occurred in Iraq?

Huge explosion of 24 shipping containers of sodium perchlorate received from China for use in Iranian missiles in the port city of Bandar Abbas, Iran.
... He estimates it is about 2X the size of the Beirut Lebanon explosion.

These two things don't square. 24 full 40' connex containers can carry around 700 tons of actual load. The Beirut explosion was estimated at ~6100 tons. Even allowing for sodium perchlorate being the more potent explosive, we're nowhere near parity, much less this being 2x Beirut. There's already video published from 200 yards of the explosion. Unfortunately having viewed it, you may only take the distance to imply that the recording device survived, not necessarily the person utilizing it :(

This chemical is more explosive than ammonium sulfate.

I should hope so! Because so is sawdust. Ammonium sulfate is non-flammable, non-explosive. I'm pretty sure he meant "ammonium nitrate"- the common fertilizer component that's been blowing up in ports for about 100 years now, to much sorrow across all humanity. But still.

And speaking of basic fact checking (sulfate≠nitrate), and other existing videos, he doesn't have any of the existing shots or videos in his stream.

All the above is disappointing: this live stream is time-stamped on Youtube as initiated about 12 hours after the explosion happened. The fact that it's the middle of the night in Iraq in the livestream vs daylight in photos and videos of the explosion bears this out. Dude and his crew had 12+ hours to get basic facts right and acquire freely available footage, and they whiffed on both counts.

I didn't recognize CBN News and had hoped I'd found another new media outlet willing to tell the truth and not self-censor, but this wasn't a great first impression. If I want my news factually wrong and late, I might as well just watch CNN.

[janetjanet998]

PEPCON explosion Henderson Nevada MAY 1988

Ammonium Perhlorate explosion equivalent of small nuclear
weapon
—-
Video of that explosion
1988 PEPCON chemical plant explosion Henderson, Nevada
https://rumble.com/v6smh9f-1988-pepcon-chemical-plant-explosion-henderson-nevada.html

[janetjanet998]

Fires still spreading throughout the port

They are even bringing in water bomber jets

[ThanhPhero]

this seems to be some sort of recurring syndrone.

[tired&retired]

The text is my commentary based upon listening to the video.

The word slip replacing nitrate with sulfate was mine. I’m a farmer and familiar with ammonium nitrate and sulfate, just mixed up the terms.

The explosions progressed in sequence as additional containers caught fire.

If you listen to the video, he explains that the revised figures on the Beirut explosion were much smaller. Most of the ammonium nitrate had disappeared prior to the explosion.

If you listen to the video, he explains most of your criticisms in detail. But complainers love to complain.

[11th_VA]

They blowed up real good …

[dagunk]

My second thought is maybe dont play around with dangerous chemicals. Sometimes things end badly.

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“People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.”
Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban

[dagunk]

PEPCON explosion Henderson Nevada MAY 1988
Ammonium Perhlorate explosion equivalent of small nuclear
weapon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster

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Lived there at the time. Sure made a mess. Had to strip a wall, fix the studs, put wallboard back up, etc etc etc. The other damage was easy enough to fix. No broken glass - damned if I know how that happened.

Pepcon proceeded to move production to some canyon up in Utah and blow themselves up again.

The perchlorate was like talcum powder. Sloppy houskeeping, cleanliness poor.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Mohammad #3: I’ll see your Pocket pager and raise you a shipping container of sodium perchlorate rocket fuel

[jjotto]

CBN (700 Club) - Christian Broadcasting Network’s purpose is End Times evangelism and has a certain hyperbolic method. Holton is frequently out over his skis.

[tumblindice]

Chinese stuff is covered frequently on the Farm Report:
people falling through sidewalks, facades & buildings collapsing on crowds, scooter riders squashed by trucks, scaffolding movers electrocuting themselves, contents of trucks/containers spontaneously catching fire/exploding, lathe, press operators going round and round/getting squashed (lots of squashing), vehicles rolling over small children, manhole covers being blown into the air, people eating things that should not be eaten—alive, raw or boiled in gutter oil, dogs scalded alive ...
It’s all so tiresome.

[verum ago]

Christian Broadcasting Network’s purpose is End Times evangelism and has a certain hyperbolic method. Holton is frequently out over his skis.

Ah, that explains things a bit, and thank you for the marvelous expression I bolded. I haven't seen that one before, but it seems quite useful indeed!