Explosion at Tehran military base

[Quasar]

RIP to the dead

 

[Hussein]

Self exploding Shahab-3's.

this is very possible indeed.

 

[Doctor09]

RIP to the dead

 

[bubble123]

Rest in Peace who died.

Whats up with the ppl in this thread.Why do Muslims keep on throwing mud at each other while Zionists are laughing their ***** off.

 

[T-Rex]

Rest in Peace who died.

Whats up with the ppl in this thread.Why do Muslims keep on throwing mud at each other while Zionists are laughing their ***** off.

As long as Muslims will allow rulers like hamad of Bahrain and Assad of Syria to rule, this will be their lot.

 

[unicorn]

Iran missile development commander killed in explosion

An explosion at a Revolutionary Guard base in Iran killed a senior commander in charge of the country's missile development programme, the authorities have said, prompting speculation Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service was involved.

Brigadier General Hassan Moghaddam was said to be "responsible for industrial research aimed at ensuring self-sufficiency of the Revolutionary Guards' armaments", a coded way of confirming reports that he was responsible for its missile inventory.

The authorities claimed the explosion was caused by an accident which happened as ammunition was being moved, but the high-profile status of its main victim will add to speculation that it was an act of sabotage aimed at the country's nuclear weapons programme.

One US-based commentator known to have good sources in Israel's military community said he had been told it was carried out by Mossad, co-operating with an exile group, the People's Mojaheddin of Iran (MEK).

He drew comparisons with an explosion at a base housing Shahab-3 long-range missiles just over a year ago, which killed 18 people and which was also put down by the authorities to a fire in an ammunition depot.

Neither Mossad nor Israel ever claims responsibility for such acts. But Israeli media began speculating immediately as to the nature of the blast, which sent shock-waves from the base at as far away as Tehran 25 miles away to the east. Seventeen people were killed, according to the Revolutionary Guard spokesman, Gen. Ramazan Sharif.


The website of the biggest-selling Israeli newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, said "some assessments" indicated the blast was "the result of a military operation based on intelligence information".

The US commentator, Richard Silverstein, who has a record of revealing information censored inside Israel, said on his blog that a source had confirmed it as a Mossad operation in collaboration with the MEK. "It is widely known within intelligence circles that the Israelis use the MEK for varied acts of espionage and terror," he said.

Although such reports are unverifiable, the Iranian nuclear programme has been hit by a series of disasters in the last two years, assumed to be the work of outside agencies, probably Mossad. Last year, a senior nuclear scientist was killed and another injured when their cars were attacked with "sticky bombs" by men on motorbikes.

A highly sophisticated computer worm which caused centrifuges used for enriching uranium to spin out of control was also blamed on Mossad, possibly working with assistance of computer programmers from the United States and Britain.

The explosions last year and on Saturday, if caused deliberately, would appear to be aimed at the Shahab-3, the long-range missile that is geared to strike Israel in retaliation for any raid on the nuclear programme, and which is also suspected of being the intended vehicle for any nuclear warhead.
A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency released last week which renewed calls inside Israel for a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities focused partly on efforts allegedly being made to fit such a warhead on a missile.

Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman for the MEK, denied "absolutely" that it was involved. "The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has nothing to do, directly or indirectly, with this explosion," he said in a statement.

He also noted that the Revolutionary Guard had a reputation for "sloppiness".

He claimed that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had personally ordered Brig Gen Moghaddam to oversee moving the missiles at the base to a new location in response to the threat of an Israeli strike.

The Iranian authorities denied a more far-fetched claim that the explosion happened as the Guard tried to fit a missile with a nuclear warhead, and insisted there were no suspicious circumstances.

"My colleagues at the Guard were transporting ammunition at one of the depots at the site when an explosion occurred as a result of an accident," Gen. Sharif said.
As well as the 17 killed, 16 members of the Guard were injured, he said.

Iran missile development commander killed in explosion - Telegraph

 

[bubble123]

As long as Muslims will allow rulers like hamad of Bahrain and Assad of Syria to rule, this will be their lot.

Nahi yar its just not limited to rulers Muslim society is so fragmented.

 

[SinoChallenger]

Iran missile development commander killed in explosion

Iran missile development commander killed in explosion - Telegraph

So Mossad's hand is behind this. Israel is as cunning as it is evil. I hope Russia and China will soon finally agree to support Iran's effort to defend itself against ever more aggressive Western countries.

 

[500]

There was another explosion on Shahab-3 base in October 2010:

18 Revolutionary Guards Killed at Iran Base - NYTimes.com

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

''accidental''


..............

 

[Indian Army]

Already predicted on the same day in post #10

 

[500]

A chronology of accidents in Iran:

9 january 2006
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards ground forces and at least 10 other officers have died in a plane crash.

27 november 2007
An Iranian military plane crashed shortly after takeoff at Tehran's Mehrabad airport killing all 39 people on board, including 30 members of the Revolutionary Guards, police said. High ranking Iranian police commander, Eskandar Moemeni, told the Fars news agency that three people who initially survived the crash of the Antonov 74 died on their way to hospital.

15 january 2007
Nuclear physicist Ardeshir Hosseinpour, a professor at the University of Shiraz, dies under mysterious circumstances during his nuclear work at Isfahan.

15 july 2009
Italian daily Corriere Della Sera on Saturday reported that Iran’s Caspian Air’s Russian-made Tupolev jet that crashed near the city of Qazvin on 15 July, claiming the lives of 168 people, was carrying in its luggage compartment several metal cases with two kilograms of explosives and detonators. At the time of the crash, there were reports that members of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards were on board the plane. Corriere Della Sera says that its sources claim that the IRGC officers were to monitor the delivery of explosives to Hezbollah via Armenia.

26 september 2010
Iran has confirmed that 30,000 computers in the country's power stations, including the nuclear reactor in Bushehr, have been attacked by the Stuxnet worm.

13 october 2010
An explosion at an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base in a remote area of southwestern Iran killed 18 members of the powerful military organization and wounded 14 more. In a statement, the Revolutionary Guards said the blast was caused by a fire spreading to an ammunition store at the base, which the research group Global Security says houses underground launching and storage facilities for Iran’s medium-range Shahab-3 ballistic missiles.

29 november 2010
Bomb attacks have killed a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist and wounded another in Tehran, state TV reported.

14 november 2011
Iranian officials have confirmed that the Stuxnet-like Duqu virus hit computers in the country, but said a fix is being provided to those affected. While Stuxnet was aimed at crippling industrial control systems and may have destroyed some of the centrifuges Iran uses to enrich uranium, experts say Duqu appeared designed to gather data to make it easier to launch future cyber attacks.

14 november 2011
An explosion Saturday at a missile base for Iran’s elite Republican Guard killed at least 17 soldiers. The base is home to the Fifth Raad Missile Brigade, which oversees Iran’s medium-range Shahab-3 ballistic missile. One of those killed in the explosion was Hasan Tehrani Moqaddam, a top Republican Guard commander involved in the research of long-range missiles.

 

[500]

Tehran missile base explosion pictures:

Institute for Science and International Security › ISIS Reports › Satellite Image Showing Damage from November 12, 2011 Blast at Military Base in Iran

Another explosion in Isfahan:

Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

[SinoChallenger]

Those photos are inconclusive. They could have demolished many of the buildings after an initial explosion. Still, I believe it is far more likely Mossad had Iran opposition sabotage these sites.

 

[Quasar]

"The incident happened during a research program which could have become a severe punch on Israeli regime's mouth," General Hassan Firouzabadi said.