Iran accuses the “negligence” for the port explosion when the death issue rises to 70

Iran’s Interior Minister said negligence is a factor in the large -scale explosion and fire in the largest container port in the country, as the death number has risen to at least 70.

Escandar Moleni said the explosion on Saturday at the port of Shahid Raja in Bandar Abbas, who also wounded over 1000 people, was caused by “disadvantages, including non -compliance with precautions and negligence.”

“Some persons who considered it responsible were called for questioning,” he added.

The customs authorities said the import of cargo had ignited and exploded. The Ministry of Defense denied foreign reports that it was a shipment of a rocket fuel chemical.

The Director of Crisis Management for Hormosgan Province, Mehordad Hasanzade, also said on Monday that fire efforts at the port are “almost in its last stages.”

Hormone governor Mohammed Ashuri, this, in the meantime, said that the port cleaner operations could last for several more days and that it could take one to two weeks before the situation returned to the rate there.

He estimated that 1500 hectares (3700 acres) – almost two -thirds of the site – were heavily affected by the explosion.

The customs administration stated that the load that was ignited and exploded was not registered or officially registered or officially announced before the incident, according to the ISNA News Agency.

On Sunday, the executive director of the company that managed the affected area, a maritime and port development company, accused “multiple and catastrophic error involving false hazardous declarations”.

The Iranian Ministry of Defense has denied that the explosion is caused by improper handling of sodium perchlori, a solid fuel used for ballistic missiles.

Brig-spokesman Gen Reza Talay-Nic said on Sunday that “there was and no import or export of fuel or military supply near the incident” and accused foreign media of distributing “fake news”.

Ambrey Intelligence, a private risk consultation at sea risk, told the Associated Press that the port had received a shipment of sodium perhlor last month and that the explosion was “according to reports is the result of improper handling.”

The New York Times also cites an unnamed person with ties to Iran’s revolutionary security, saying that sodium perhlrate has exploded.