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| IRNA: Official denies attack on Iran`s nuclear, oil facilities in Bushehr |
| 2005-02-16 |
| This is an update on the Newsflash posted by TGA. Bushehr, Feb 16, IRNA -- Governor General of the southern province of Bushehr, Esmaeel Tabadar, here on Wednesday has denied any attack on Iran`s nuclear and oil facilities in the province. Tabadar told IRNA that foreign media had in a targeted move falsely mentioned the sound of a blast heard from a mountainous region 220 kilometers north of Bushehr nuclear power plant before noon Wednesday as an attack on the power plant. He said that although the Wednesday pre-noon blast in the mountainous region east of Daylam port in northern Bushehr province was an insignificant issue, military experts immediately headed to the region aboard a helicopter to identify the cause of the incident. He added that the experts had strongly rejected any military invasion of the site. The official reiterated that the site of the explosion had been a mountainous region in the north of Bushehr province, which is uninhabited. An informed source said the minor explosion might have have been set off in a mountainous region east of Daylam port 220 kilometers north of Bushehr before noon on Wednesday by Oil Ministry contractors,while attempting to clear the ground for implementing oil projects. He said the use of dynamite to clear the rough mountainous terrain for roads to implement oil projects is a usual procedure. This might explain the sound, but fails to address the eyewitness reports of a rocket being fired or a fuel tank falling from an aircraft. |
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