{"id":7765,"date":"2025-04-26T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7765"},"modified":"2025-04-26T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:01:37","slug":"a-massive-explosion-and-fire-strikes-the-iranian-port-city-of-bandar-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7765","title":{"rendered":"A massive explosion and fire strikes the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">TEHRAN, Iran &#8212; <\/span>A massive explosion and fire struck the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, officials said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mehrdad Hasanzadeh, a provincial disaster management official, told Iranian state television there were injuries in the blast, without elaborating. He added that first responders were trying to reach the area while others were attempting to evacuate the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hasanzadeh said the blast came from containers at Rajaei port in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Social media videos showed a huge plume of black smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Rajaei port mainly handles container traffic and also has oil tanks and other petrochemical facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Iran &#8212; A massive explosion and fire struck the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, officials said. Mehrdad Hasanzadeh, a provincial disaster management official, told Iranian state television there were injuries in the blast, without elaborating. He added that first responders were trying to reach the area while others were attempting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7767,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions\/7767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}