An explosion rocked the Iranian capital on Sunday, with an enormous orange flash illuminating Tehran at around 11:15 p.m. local time.Iran’s Defense Industries Organization officials said that two workers lost their lives as a result of fire and explosion at an “explosive material production unit” east of Tehran, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported.
The Defense Industries Organization (DIO) is a conglomerate of companies run by Iran’s Ministry of Defense and provides the Iranian military with the manufacturing and technical capacity. The announcement made by DIO about the explosion indicates that the incident was military related and could have happened at a military site.Iranian website Salamnews reporting on the same incident said the explosion at the site was so intense that shattered the windows of buildings 15km (nine miles) away.
Witnesses in the east of Tehran confirmed that windows have been shattered in the vicinity of Parchin, and all trees in a hundred yard radius of two nearby villages of Changi and Hammamak were burned. Parchin is a military research and development site suspected in the past of experimenting with explosives capable of triggering a nuclear weapon.
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