On Monday, April 28, the firefighters were still trying to overcome the fire – the source of an explosion left 65 dead and more than a thousand injured, according to the latest assessment – which has ravaged the Shahid Rajai port for two days. The largest commercial port of Iran is located near the city of Bandar Abbas, in the south of the country, near the Strait of Ormuz, a strategic maritime route by which a fifth of world oil production passes.
“More than half of Iran’s imports and non -oil exports are treated in this port”, Recall the moderate site ASR-E IRAN. “Even if my goods are safe, everything will be suspended for at least twenty to thirty days”, regrets a merchant interviewed by the media.
“We are now going to be faced with a shortage of raw materials.”
While the authorities remained silent on the nature of the stored materials which caught fire and the cause of the explosion was not determined, the Ministry of the Interior conceded “Negligence”, According to the media ETekhab. According to some media, the guards of the revolution, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, would have stored, without precautionary measures, of important
