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Iranian official blames port blast on poor storage of chemicals
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Hossein Zafari, a spokesperson for Iran’s crisis management organization, appears to blame the explosion at the country’s largest commercial port in Shahid Rajaee on poor storage of chemicals in containers.
“The cause of the explosion was the chemicals inside the containers,” he tells Iran’s ILNA news agency.
“Previously, the Director General of Crisis Management had given warnings to this port during their visits and had pointed out the possibility of danger,” Zafari says.
An Iranian government spokesperson, however, says that although chemicals had likely caused the blast, it was not yet possible to determine the exact reason.
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