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Arms blast death toll rises to at least 36 in Iran

17 November 2011 [15:40] - TODAY.AZ
The number of Revolutionary Guards killed in a munitions blast at a base outside Tehran last Saturday rose to at least 36.

The figure -- based on news reports giving the names of each of the men buried -- was more than double the toll of 17 dead given by a Revolutionary Guards spokesman on the day of the explosion.

 The spokesman said at the time that 23 Revolutionary Guards were wounded, some of them critically.

 The huge blast at the base in Bid Ganeh, near Tehran, notably killed General Hassan Moqaddam, a key figure in the Revolutionary Guards' ballistic missile programme.

Iranian military officials said repeatedly the explosion was an accident, implicitly rejecting speculation in Israeli and Western media that it might have been a covert military operation by Israel or the United States.


/Hurriyet Daily/

 
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