Hundreds injured as ‘massive’ explosion hits Iran’s port city Bandar Abbas

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1. Interestingly this is from February:
   [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/13/middleeast/iran-is-rearming-its-missile-program-and-a-ship-of-supplies-just-arrived-from-china-western-sources-say/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/13/middleeast/iran-is-rearming-its-missile-program-and-a-ship-of-supplies-just-arrived-from-china-western-sources-say/index.html)

   >The first of two vessels carrying 1,000 tons of a Chinese-made chemical that could be a key component in fuel for Iran’s military missile program has anchored outside the Iranian port of **Bandar Abbas** on Thursday, ship tracking data shows. It could be a signal that Iran’s missile production is back to business as usual after the devastating, and embarrassing, attacks by Israel on key factories last year.

   >The ship, Golbon, left the Chinese port of Taicang three weeks ago loaded with most of a 1,000-ton shipment of sodium perchlorate, the main precursor in the production of the solid propellant that powers Iran’s mid-range conventional missiles, according to two European intelligence sources.

   >The sodium perchlorate could allow for the production of sufficient propellant for some 260 solid rocket motors for Iran’s Kheibar Shekan missiles or 200 of the Haj Qasem ballistic missiles, according to the intelligence sources.

   And the colour of explosions looks similar to the Beirut port explosion which Hezbollah has been implicated in.

2. My friend is an environmental advisor who has worked here, she said that she had criticized the operations here (and elsewhere in places like Abbadan) years ago and her suggestions were ignored. Now she’s writing me fearing that her friends at the port were killed.

   Such a tragedy. She compared it to the port explosion in Beirut that happened a few years ago.

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