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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: Ben Dover

Interesting bio. Did he write it himself?


41 posted on 06/27/2020 11:37:21 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Testing continues...
Good to know that American taxpayer's money is being spent productively...
42 posted on 06/27/2020 11:56:55 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Netanyahu, you magnificent bastard!


43 posted on 06/27/2020 12:17:07 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: stockpirate

allegedly struck by possible missile-like object

i’m writing like media does a crime story


44 posted on 06/27/2020 12:17:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Mossad strikes again. 😆
45 posted on 06/27/2020 12:22:59 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Grampa Dave
I know you believe you understand what you think I said; but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.😇
46 posted on 06/27/2020 12:28:41 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
From Jerusalem Post: "The Khojir area houses a facility for making surface to surface missiles. These may be precision guided munitions that are the kind trafficked to Hezbollah."

The Portland Press Herald reports "The gas storage area sits near what analysts describe as Iran’s Khojir missile facility. The explosion appears to have struck a facility for the Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group, which makes solid-propellant rockets, said Fabian Hinz, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.

The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies identified Khojir as the “site of numerous tunnels, some suspected of use for arms assembly.” Large industrial buildings at the site visible from satellite photographs also suggest missile assembly being conducted there.

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency says Iran overall has the largest underground facility program in the Middle East.

Such sites “support most facets of Tehran’s ballistic missile capabilities, including the operational force and the missile development and production program,” the DIA said in 2019.

Iranian officials themselves also identified the site as being in Parchin, home to a military base where the International Atomic Energy Agency previously said it suspects Iran conducted tests of explosive triggers that could be used in nuclear weapons. Iran long has denied seeking nuclear weapons, though the IAEA previously said Iran had done work in “support of a possible military dimension to its nuclear program” that largely halted in late 2003."

Where are the close up satellite images of the site?

Published photos from before the explosion showed more detail. Maybe Western Intelligence is waiting for clean up to erase the indications of what occurred.

Best to just accept the official position:


47 posted on 06/27/2020 12:50:54 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Explosion at Suspected Missile Site in Iran

Or,

Iranian Aerospace Engineers Have A Blast


48 posted on 06/27/2020 12:56:41 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Ben Dover

“Here’s the guy who wrote it. I think he needs some continuing education courses.”

He definitely has that gay look, straight into the camera, really serious (as if interested in the photographer) - but still, given his background, I think he’s normal.


49 posted on 06/27/2020 1:01:04 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“Abdul, I told you not to smoke back there!”


50 posted on 06/27/2020 1:01:33 PM PDT by Nachoman (Following victory, its best to reload.)
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To: Ben Dover

The editor? I thought columnists rarely wrote their own headlines.


51 posted on 06/27/2020 1:03:19 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Tucker39

Dang, two of my rare headaches in one day and basically from one post.


52 posted on 06/27/2020 1:14:12 PM 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: Graybeard58

Former proof reading crew now taking computer coding lessons.


53 posted on 06/27/2020 1:21:51 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: stockpirate

There are “the usual suspects,” in the missile world.
In this case, “allied forces could be rounded up!”

But the camel drivers are unable to whip the stupid beasts enough to catch those go fast guys.


54 posted on 06/27/2020 2:00:44 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya? Nunc Bibendum)
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To: Grampa Dave

All in good fun, Grampa. In a former life I was sitting in a CEO’s office and noticed that saying, framed, hanging on his wall. The minute I saw it I said “Communication!” under my breath. I realized it explains why so many people don’t understand one another. I think the reason is, so many don’t LISTEN worth a bleep.
Blessings.


55 posted on 06/27/2020 2:14:41 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: BeauBo; SJackson; SunkenCiv

If I were Iran, I would work towards the more reliable, more easily built U235 gun device, not a complex Pu239 implosion device requiring dozens of simultaneous equally powerful explosions.

Image of this site id very different from the ammo dump/bomb dump complex discussed yesterday near Tehran


56 posted on 06/27/2020 2:14:54 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

This may explain why the Jerusalem Post got the headlines out way ahead of nearly everyone else???

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3859228/posts


57 posted on 06/27/2020 3:24:19 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I had to read the title a few times, scratching my head...
Yoda, he is not...


58 posted on 06/27/2020 4:08:19 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: BwanaNdege
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.

Yes, that's it.
The K.S.A. is this country's only friend in that part of the world. The gigantic petroleum company was ARAMCO, the Arabian-American Oil Company, founded in the 1920's by four big American oil companies...nothing whatsoever to do with our own government.
By the early 1980's the King of Saudi Arabia BOUGHT back and bought out ARAMCO. The king in the 1920's had sold his country's petroleum and natural gas wells to the four big American oil companies. Now, the name of the company is Saudi Aramco and owned 100% by King Mohammed bin Salman.
The King had BOUGHT the companies so the wealthy Saudi families wouldn't fight over it.
American engineers still work there. Saudi Aramco pays the American engineers a TON of money to work and live in the K.S.A.
American engineers pay NO federal income tax on the first $80K they earn over there. THAT is the "carrot" the company offers them to live over there. Also, Americans pay no state income tax if their state has it.

My husband and I were there for five long years. We made a TON of $$$ and we had the opportunity to travel all over the world.
We went to places that we KNEW we would never see when we returned home: Egypt (twice), Kenya, China, India, most of southeast Asia...lots of countries.

My husband called that experience an "adventure of a lifetime" for us. He was right.

No relation to IRON...huh?

59 posted on 06/27/2020 4:59:16 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Orrrrr, they could abandon their weapons research and focus on improving life in Iran. Good way to start that second step would be for all the mullahs and their fanatic nitwit followers to self-immolate.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3859760/posts?page=34#34


60 posted on 06/27/2020 8:13:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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