Posted on 05/24/2011 3:21:18 AM PDT by edpc
An explosion blamed on a technical problem caused a fire at an oil refinery in Iran during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
One person was killed and six people were injured but Ahmadinejad was not hurt and appeared on state television giving a scheduled speech to mark the inauguration of a new phase of the refinery in Abadan, south-western Iran, close to the Iraqi border.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Article attribution should be Reuters.
Sorcery!
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy...
Stuxxnet at work. Somebody clicked on a porn link.
Darn! Now our gas is going to go up again. n/s
A clean up and repair phase.
"According to Mehr, a “testing machine” exploded almost directly after it was placed in the area where Ahmadinejad was preparing "Quote #2
"Authorities ruled out any form of sabotage and instead spoke of an industrial incident caused by a gas leak at the Abadan oil refinery"Quote #3
"independent media outlets said the death toll from the blast was much higher than what was reported by the state-controlled news services. The Khabar Online Web site, for example, which tends to be critical of Ahmadinejad, quoted an engineer at the refinery who said at least 30 people had been killed. "Quote #4
"Khabar also reported that German engineers who had been working on the site had refused to come to the inauguration because of safety concerns that arose on Monday."
Using the Team 0bama method of news planting?
Each leaker has their own lies.
Damnit!!! Missed again!!!
May have been a fire for several days prior...
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some sort of protest?
They rather invest in making atomic bombs then building adequate refinery capacity for their own needs.
Thanks Ernest.
As it seems, it should hurt. Especially since Iran curbed domestic demand by reducing subsidies and raising pump prices starting in 2007.
Despite sanctions, Venezula, Russia, Turkey, parts of Asia, and China are still willing to do business w/ Iran. China, for example, signed up to the United Nations sanctions when they took full effect in mid-2010, but refused to support measures that targeted Iran's oil and gas sector.
I don't think Iran will have problems meeting its domestic demand for gasoline. Apparently, part of the reason for upgrades & increasing oil refining capacity is to allow Iran to join the grp of gasoline exporting countries within 5 yrs.
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