Explosion at Iranian power station joins growing list of mysterious blasts

(WIN) There have been several mysterious explosions and fires at Iranian military, nuclear and industrial facilities over the past several weeks.

Also on Sunday, the BBC’s Persian language news service published satellite images of where a large fire reportedly took place in the Garmdareh area west of the capital Tehran earlier this month, where Iranian authorities had denied anything took place

The BBC report said some experts have expressed doubts about the connection between “hearing the sound of an explosion” in Garmadreh and the fire. They talked about the possibility of an accidental fire or even a “fake” fire to mislead the media.

Sunday’s incident is the latest in a string of fires and explosions at military and civilian sites across Iran in recent weeks, including a blast at a suspected ballistic missile facility outside Tehran and another at a health center in which 19 people died.

Over the past few weeks fires hit a shipyard in southern Iran, an explosion at a factory south of Tehran killed two people, a petrochemical plant caught fire, and a mysterious powerful blast caused massive damage at the top-secret Natanz nuclear complex in central Iran.

The Iranian authorities called the Natanz fire an accident, but a New York Times report suggested Israel might have been behind the event.