{"id":1005,"date":"2011-11-12T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2011-11-12T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T17:15:42","slug":"blast-at-iranian-weapons-depot-kills-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/blast-at-iranian-weapons-depot-kills-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast at Iranian weapons depot kills 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kay Armin Serjoie and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/thomas-erdbrink\/2011\/03\/02\/ABnuvmP_page.html\">Thomas Erdbrink<\/a>, Saturday, November\u00a012, 10:40\u00a0AM <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN \u2014 An explosion at a Revolutionary Guard Corps weapons depot near the Iranian capital killed 15 soldiers Saturday, Iranian state TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Firemen from several cities rushed to the scene to control a raging fire ignited by the explosion, which was felt by many in Tehran, 30 miles to the east. Witnesses reported a thick black column of smoke rising from the site.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ramezan Sharif, a spokesman for the Guards, said the incident was an accident that occurred when ammunition was being transported at the Shahid Modarres base in the industrial city of Malard, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion comes amid a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/iran-pipeline-blast-caused-by-sabotage\/2011\/04\/10\/AFiswYFD_story.html\">sharp increase in explosions<\/a> at industrial sites, key gas pipelines and Revolutionary Guard bases in Iran in recent years, which some here attribute to sabotage by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2010, 18 servicemen were killed in an explosion at an ammunition depot on a Guard Corps base near the western city of Khorramabad.<\/p>\n<p>In May, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/blast-during-ahmadinejad-opening-of-refinery-kills-two\/2011\/05\/24\/AFXqMKAH_story.html\">a blast at an oil refinery<\/a> during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad killed four people.<\/p>\n<p>Tension has escalated between Iran and the United States and Israel in recent days, following threats of attacks on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities and possible retaliation for such a move.<\/p>\n<p>Serjoie is a special correspondent. Erdbrink reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kay Armin Serjoie and Thomas Erdbrink, Saturday, November\u00a012, 10:40\u00a0AM TEHRAN \u2014 An explosion at a Revolutionary Guard Corps weapons depot near the Iranian capital killed 15 soldiers Saturday, Iranian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/blast-at-iranian-weapons-depot-kills-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[171,169,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}