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Satellite image: Iran blast struck by suspected missile site
AP ^ | 6/26/2020 | Jon Gambrell

Posted on 06/27/2020 8:47:15 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An explosion that rattled Iran’s capital came from an area in its eastern mountains that analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites, satellite photographs showed Saturday.

What exploded in the incident early Friday that sent a massive fireball into the sky near Tehran remains unclear, as does the cause of the blast.

The unusual response of the Iranian government in the aftermath of the explosion, however, underscores the sensitive nature of an area near where international inspectors believe the Islamic Republic conducted high-explosive tests two decades ago for nuclear weapon triggers.

The blast shook homes, rattled windows and lit up the horizon early Friday in the Alborz Mountains. State TV later aired a segment from what it described as the site of the blast.

One of its journalists stood in front of what appeared to be large, blackened gas cylinders, though the camera remained tightly focused and did not show anything else around the site. Defense Ministry spokesman Davood Abdi blamed the blast on a leaking gas he did not identify and said no one was killed in the explosion.

Abdi described the site as a “public area,” raising the question of why military officials and not civilian firefighters would be in charge. The state TV report did not answer that.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gascylinders; iran; israel; khojir; missleattack; parchin; qasemsoleimani; qudsforce; syria; tehran; whoops
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I’m guessing it had something to do with Global Warming.


21 posted on 06/27/2020 9:15:25 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
The folks in that area are going what they've always been doing: fighting with each other.

Except for the K.S.A. They have several thousand Americans working and living there in the petroleum and natural gas industries. There are American Air Forces there protecting the petroleum and natural gas fields both on and off shore.
Safest place to be in that area of the world.

22 posted on 06/27/2020 9:16:51 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

For those of us not “in the know” of insider jargon, does your “K.S.A.” refer to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?

I assume it has no relation to anything in Iron.


23 posted on 06/27/2020 9:21:15 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: Ben Dover
Here’s the guy who wrote it.
Headlines are very often not written by the article's author. Newspapers (and maybe AP) have "headline writers."
24 posted on 06/27/2020 9:21:41 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Personally, I always assume “Rod from God” until further evidence proves me wrong.


25 posted on 06/27/2020 9:24:29 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Hiddigeigei
Here’s the guy who wrote it. Headlines are very often not written by the article's author. Newspapers (and maybe AP) have "headline writers."

I didn't know that. So someone's sole job is to write a headline?..and they can't even do that correctly?

26 posted on 06/27/2020 9:26:57 AM PDT by Ben Dover
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To: wbarmy

>>Personally, I always assume “Rod from God” until further evidence proves me wrong.<<

Message to Iran : We can reach out and touch you any damn time we please.

Iran : Message received.


27 posted on 06/27/2020 9:29:55 AM PDT by Tejas Rob
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Suck it faisel


28 posted on 06/27/2020 9:30:26 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Shirley there are experts here that can determine if it’s an implosion, or an explosion?


29 posted on 06/27/2020 9:32:33 AM PDT by Professional
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To: ClearCase_guy

Headline? The blast was struck by a site?

My head hurt after reading that headline.

Was something lost or gained in a translation?


30 posted on 06/27/2020 9:35:04 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Can I trust that you and I will take the red pill and vote for Trump, this November!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Same here, lol!!
Think the AP needs to train their writers to take better aim before launching any headline into print, since this one ( actually an ASSline) created such an explosion of confusion!


31 posted on 06/27/2020 9:37:14 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: datura

“Wasn’t there a “coincidental” finding of radioisotopes just the other day?”


When this was first being reported, there were reports of ‘tasting/smelling metal’—made me think of the series Chernobyl.


32 posted on 06/27/2020 9:40:08 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Graybeard58
Back in the day there were cooy editors who would review the reporters illiteracy and try to make sense of it. Now, "I's rights it, den I's publicish it!" Thank you DNC Run schools.


33 posted on 06/27/2020 9:47:58 AM PDT by Bommer (I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

34 posted on 06/27/2020 10:07:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: hanamizu

The locals reported hearing a “sisss”. Then came the “boom”, followed by a “bah”.

They thought it was just another sheep exploding.

/yesterday’s Johnny Carson thread.


35 posted on 06/27/2020 10:11:25 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Starboard

You give them too much credit. They are as stupid as they appear.


36 posted on 06/27/2020 10:13:14 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Hiddigeigei
"Headlines are very often not written by the article's author."

Such as: (Wikipedia) Mush from the Wimp?

37 posted on 06/27/2020 10:18:45 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: stockpirate
I think it is supposed to read, “Iran site struck by suspected missile.”

Mossad?

38 posted on 06/27/2020 10:33:57 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force commissioned officer, and highly trained, competent USAF combat pilot.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Overaccelerating centrifuge?


39 posted on 06/27/2020 10:35:23 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Maybe an inside job by a double agent...good riddance to whatever is that could create a hole that big.


40 posted on 06/27/2020 11:32:28 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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