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It was an earthquake, it was thunder, it was a gas station blowing up, it was conventional ammunition blowing up while being moved, it was nuclear trigger testing gone wrong, it was an Israeli missile attack, it was a combined Israeli and Marxist-Islamist MEK (Mojaheddin-e Khalgh) sabotage etc., etc.

The gas station was the first response from the Mullahs, then ending up with moving explosives, which is what happened the last time there were explosions in that area.

Until I get some more details from inside Iran, I will go with the poorly or even untrained soldiers used to move things around, could include some nuclear trigger equipment, being moved to/from the mountain caves near there for safety, setting off a chain reaction of munitions being preapared for terrorist use in Iraq and Afghanistan.

On the reverse side of the coin is the fact that American, Israeli, British and possibly French special forces are known to be wandering around parts of Iran and could have come together with MEK informants and decided to create the event.

The MEK, feared and vilified by the Mullahs, are Joe Sixpack Iranians without any distinguishing brand on their forehead! Their unity is their philosophy, not any physical or regional identity.

If I had to guess at who might have also helped with a sabotage operation I would consider the warrior Kurdish activists, who have friendly ethnic Kurdish ingress and egress points at the Turkish and Iraqi borders

MEANWHILE
There are some of you on FR who might enjoy these Persian songs, an Afghan dancer etc., from the 1950’s and 60’s so here’s a link.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/11/some-pre-revoution-persian-songs.html