Another Mystery Explosion Hits Iran, Third in Six Weeks

For a country who's president claims to have God on his side, Iran has has sure had a wave of lousy luck. Every two weeks a new Iranian City has a Mystery Explosion. First it was the missile test facility in Bidganeh, a town southwest of Tehran. Then there was the boom in the city of Isfahan – one of Iran's largest cities, which just so happens to house a nuclear facility and a missile plant.  

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A mysterious explosion took place in a steel factory in Iran overnight Sunday, killing seven people, the latest in a series of blasts that have rocked the Islamic Republic over the last month.

This time the blast occurred in a steel mill apparently someone forgot to take the bomb out of the scrap metal the mill was processing, at least that is the official story.

The deaths occurred in an explosion and subsequent fire at a steel factory in the central Iranian province of Yadz, Iran's IRIB news agency quoted Yazd Governor Azizollah Seifi as saying on Monday. He said that some of the those killed in the blast were foreign nationals.

Iran processes Yellow Cake uranium  near Yazd (at a site known as the Ardekan Nuclear Fuel Unit) and is believed to have come covert nuclear operations in the city. According to JPost

While there was no evidence available to support this possibility, Iran has used seemingly innocent civilian factories before to hide its illicit nuclear activity.

Some reports have claimed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps had built underground nuclear facilities in the Yazd region. The Iranians are known to have a mine there used to extract raw uranium and that a nearby facility is where the uranium is turned into yellowcake a key component in the nuclear fuel cycle.

It is also possible that the steel facility was strictly a steel facility without a military or nuclear application. It is possible though that the factory manufactured steel parts for missiles or even centrifuges, used to enrich uranium. In either case, sabotaging such a facility could contribute to efforts aimed at delaying Iran's nuclear and missile programs.

Poor Iran....What a horrible coincidence--again!