Gas explosion rocks residential building in Tehran

A gas explosion reportedly rocks a residential building in Tehran, Iran, injuring a resident.

The explosion was caused by several gas cylinders in the building’s basement that exploded, Reuters says, citing Iran’s official IRNA news agency.

The incident comes amid a series of mysterious blasts in Iran, including one that caused extensive damage to a facility used for centrifuge production at the Natanz nuclear site.

A Middle East official told the New York Times and the Washington Post that Israel was behind the July 2 blast at Natanz.

The attack exhibited the complexity of the Stuxnet virus that sabotaged Iranian enrichment centrifuges a decade ago, experts and analysts said in a new report Friday. Officials with knowledge of the blast at Natanz last week told The New York Times that it was most likely the result of a bomb planted at the facility, potentially at a strategic gas line, but that it was not out of the question that a cyberattack was used to cause a malfunction that led to the explosion.