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A Timeline of the Fires and Explosions at Iranian facilities
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i24NEWS DESK | Images of black smoke and fire billowing from a power plant in the city of Ahvaz, some 500 miles away from Tehran, were circulating on social media.
Some cited a faulty transformer as the cause of the blast. Mohammad Hafezi, the power plant’s health and safety manager, told Iran's official news agency that he launched an investigation to find the cause of the incident.
Later in the day, a chlorine gas leak at a petrochemical plant in Mahshahr, also in the Khuzestan province, sickened some 70 workers, the Associated Press reported.
The incidents come a week after an explosion near the Parchin military complex rocked the outskirts of the Iranian capital, and one day after an unspecified "incident" in the vicinity of the Natanz nuclear facility.
Some reports claim Iran's regional arch-foe Israel is behind both incidents, while others write this theory off as an example of the Islamic Republic trying to blame accidents caused by incompetence on external forces.
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