[tired&retired]

Sodium Perchlorate is very toxic and it is expected this will cause a huge toxic contamination in the Straight of Hormuz.

[BenLurkin]

Isn’t sodium perchlorate used in airbags?

[BenLurkin]

Wait a minute.

Where were these containers headed?

[janetjanet998]

Here’s a close video of what looks like a chemical like fire before the huge explosion so solid rocket fuel may indeed be the cause

Bandar Abbas, Iran - over 500 injured in port explosion
https://rumble.com/v6slsbh-bandar-abbas-iran-over-500-injured-in-port-explosion.html

[sten]

the video would be awesome...

[Deaf Smith]

54 minute video with no Earth shattering kaboom?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Let me be the first to say the word “Mossad.”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Israel was aware of the shipment.

Snort! Now that is some fine tongue-in-cheek writing.

[PeterPrinciple]

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

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pretty much says it all

[Libloather]

Stuff works.

[Big Red Badger]

That’s a shame...
Funny the Timing...
.
snicker

[SuperLuminal]

Good news...

[Secret Agent Man]

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

[Secret Agent Man]

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

[njslim]

PEPCON explosion Henderson Nevada MAY 1988

Ammonium Perhlorate explosion equivalent of small nuclear
weapon

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

[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]

Fires still spreading throughout the port

They are even bringing in water bomber jets

[ThanhPhero]

this seems to be some sort of recurring syndrone.