A member of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Sirajhe accused Israel of being responsible, claiming that explosive devices had been placed within the containers involved but did not show any evidence.
The balance of the devastating explosion that took place in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas He climbed to at least 46 deaths and over 1,000 injured (190 hospitalized in the hospital), according to what reported on the state media reported. The Iranian authorities are still investigating to determine the causes of the accident. Saturday’s explosion hit the section Shahid Rajaee of the port, the main container hub of theIranshattering windows within kilometers, snatching sheets from the containers and causing serious damage to the goods kept inside them, according to what reported by the state media. A member of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Sirajaccused Israel of being responsible, claiming that explosive devices had been placed within the containers involved. Siraj He said that “obvious evidence” would indicate Israeli involvement, while admitting that there may also have been internal factors. However, he did not provide concrete tests in support of his statements while the supreme guide of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khameneiordered the authorities to start an in -depth investigation on the explosion.
An Israeli official, cited by the Jewish media, denied any involvement in the explosion, while Israel’s leadership has not released official comments. During the response to the massive Iranian missile attack last October, Israel He had already targeted strategic sites where Tehran uses industrial mixers for the production of solid fuel intended for his missiles. In the meantime, the New York Times He reported – with an anonymous source linked to the body of the guards of the Iranian Islamic revolution – that the explosion would have been caused by the sodium, a chemical, used as a component of solid fuel for missiles. According to the private security company Ambrey, the port had accepted a load of sodium compliance already in March, coming from China through two ships. Also this time the role of the China as supplier of materials useful for war against Israel exactly as it happens with the Russia supplied with sensitive materials to be used against theUkraine through third countries. The Chinese continue to deny being involved in the two conflicts but it is now clear that they lie.
The Financial Times had documented the arrival of the expedition in January. However, the Iranian Ministry of Defense denied the hypothesis of an explosion due to bad management of missile fuel. A spokesman, interviewed by the state TV, defined this news “part of the enemy’s psychological operations” and ensured that military loads were not present in the affected area. It is not clear why Iran did not remove the chemicals from the port, especially after the explosion that took place in the port of Beirut in 2020. On that occasion, the trigger of hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate caused over 200 deaths and more than 6,000 injured. Last Saturday, the United States and Iran approached nuclear negotiations, but they remain deep differences, in particular on the possibility for Tehran to continue enriching the uranium. The talks ended without an agreement, but with the commitment to resume the discussions soon. “Some of our differences are very serious,” Iranian Foreign Minister admitted Abbas Araghchi to state television. “Can we reach an agreement? I am confident, but also very cautious ». On the American side, a high administration official Trump He defined the “positive and productive” meeting, even without going into the details of the still unresolved issues. The next round of interviews is scheduled shortly in Europe. The meeting on Saturday, which lasted over four hours, was the third negotiation meeting of this month. They took part Araghchi and the special envoy of the United States, Steve Witkoffarrived in Oman after a summit in Moscow with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. For the first time, moreover, technical teams of both delegations addressed concrete themes, including the ways to limit Iranian nuclear activities and the possible removal of the sanctions. As the Wall Street Journal Every month, Iran produces enough enriched uranium To create a single nuclear weapon and, according to US officials, only one or two weeks would be enough to convert it into material suitable for the construction of devices. The manufacture of a real bomb would instead require a few more months. However, American intelligence believes that Iranian supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khameneihas not yet authorized the transition to the military phase.
Trump He granted two months to close an agreement, explicitly threatening the use of military force if Tehran refused to negotiate. “I think we will find an agreement, I far prefer an agreement rather than the alternative,” he told journalists on Friday. The words of Araghchi However, they suggest that the process will be far from rapid: “Negotiations are a difficult path and take time,” he underlined. The US technical team in the negotiations was led by Michael Antonhead of the political planning office of the State Department and former spokesperson for the National Security Council during the first administration Trump. Anton He confronted Iranian negotiating veterans Majid Takht–Radish And Kazem Gharibabadi. The next round of talks could also involve an expert from the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA), the body that supervises inspections on the Iranian nuclear program, has anticipated Araghchi. AIEAwho planned to send a team to Iran in the next few days, asked for clarifications on the presence of tunnels near the nuclear system of Natanzwhere the centrifuges are installed for the enrichment of uranium. Last Thursday, the Institute for Washington’s international science and security has released satellite images that show a new tunnel and a safety perimeter reinforced around the site. When asked what that tunnel was the Iranians did not answer. AND Israel? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuintervening to the political conference of Jewish News Syndicate to Jerusalemsaid a nuclear agreement with Iran must eliminate its ability to enrich the uranium, has while the United States are engaged in direct negotiations with Tehran. “A real agreement is the one that removes the possibility for Iran to enrich Uranium for military purposes,” he underlined Netanyahu. The American position appears aligned: the Secretary of State Marco Rubio He declared last week that Washington aims to an agreement that prohibits the enrichment of uranium by Tehran. However, a line that meets the firm Iranian opposition: the leader’s leader Araghchi In fact, he defined the enrichment of uranium “not negotiable”. One thing is certain; If Israel does not see his requests satisfied he will act militarily with or without the United States.
