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Mysterious Blazes on Six Iranian Ships in Iranian Ports
2019-06-13
[JCPA] As the strategic port of Shahid Rajaee, north of the Strait of Hormuz, was still dealing with the effects of a huge fire that caused serious destruction, Iranian media reported that six Iranian ships were ablaze in several ports in the southern part of the country.

The Iranian Republic News Agency reported that on June 7, 2019, four merchant ships caught fire in the port of Nakhl Taqi (Taghi) in the Asaluyeh region of Bushehr Province. Three ships were burned entirely, while two others in Asaluyeh suffered major damage. While the governor of Asaluyeh claimed the fires were extinguished without anyone harmed, the head of the emergency rooms in Bushehr Province said that several civilians and sailors had been injured and brought to hospitals in the region. The mayor of the town of Delvar, near the port of Bualhir, confirmed that one vessel in the port burned completely.
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Tit for tat?
Posted by:Mullah Richard

#3  Why does this remind me of the Reichstag fire?

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Posted by: Frozen Al   2019-06-13 13:40  

#2  June 7th means this was after the original tanker attack earlier this year but before the two tanker attacks today. Tit for tat pattern with escalating events. Where have we seen this pattern before?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2019-06-13 11:32  

#1   The Port of Shahid Rajaee lies on the north shores of the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran about 14.5 kilometers west-southwest of the Port of Bandar Abbas, of which it is a part. It is some 770 kilometers or almost 480 miles southeast of Imam Khomeini Port, and it is about 1500 kilometers (933 miles) southeast of Tehran.
Shahid Rajaee covers about 2400 hectares and handles 70 million tons of cargo per year, including three million TEUs of containerized cargo. It contains 23 berths with alongside depth of 15 meters (49.2 feet).
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889   2019-06-13 09:48  

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