IRAN: AT LEAST 30 KILLED AND 38 INJURED IN EXPLOSION AND FIRE AT CHEMICAL PLANT IN SHAZAND – MARKAZI Is this another attempt by the USA and Britain and counter-revolutionary elements?
IRNA via AFP via Yahoo! News Alerts Sunday 25th May 2008
Dear readers and fellow-Apes; read the report below and remember it well because Mahmoud Ahmedinehad will later on put the blame on the USA and Britain, and counter-revolutionary elements
TEHERAN: The Iran State News Agency (IRNA) reported that at least 30 people were killed and 38 seriously injured (23 suffered severe burns: 70 to 100%) in a fire that was caused by an explosion at a Cosmetics and Detergent-Producing Chemical Plant in Shazand in Markazi; Central Iran on Sunday. All the equipment in the factory and in the adjacent plant caught fire.
Shazand is about 320km (200m) south of Teheran. Markazi province is one of Iran's main industrial hubs. It is also one of Iran's key nuclear sites; a heavy water-reactor is at present under construction near the city of Arak.