#Iran opposition NCRI:

-Regime’s claim of last night’s incident being a gas explosion is a lie.
-Huge blast was in an ammunition production site specifically involving ballistic missile warheads.
-Parchin complex includes dozens of military factories & hundreds of buildings.
#Iran opposition NCRI:

-Eyewitnesses in the town of Hamamak & the village of Nik, just east of the site, reported a massive blast
-Many are killed & injured
Homes in nearby villages are damaged
-Residents of Hamamak & Nik are under lockdown
#Iran opposition NCRI:

Nov 2014—Iranian regime has built explosive chambers that were to be used particularly for high explosive impact as part of its nuclear weapons program.
An explosive chamber was installed and used at Parchin Military Complex.
https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/ncri-reveals-new-details-on-iranian-regime-s-nuclear-weapons-program/
#Iran aired this footage, raising many questions:
-Why did state media quickly claim it was a "gas explosion" without any investigations?
-Why is there no other footage?
-Why no aerial films of this claimed site?
-Why were no other reporters allowed there?
Can this massive explosion, with a huge orange-colored light, be the result of such a small rupture in this gas tank?
It has even left the teflon tape on this valve intact.

My take:
Rest assured the regime in #Iran is lying & covering up something big.
#Iran's regime claims this was a gas tank.
-Do they use simple gate valves at sensitive gas tank sites?
-And why didn't the massive explosion burn the paint of these ruptured tanks?
-And shouldn't these tanks be blown to pieces after that huge blast?
People in #Iran were asking why did the official state TV network, IRIB, only air a news subtitle while people were sharing videos online & dozens of foreign media outlets were reporting on the explosion?

Footage from Pardis, north of the explosion site.
People in #Iran are asking why has the government remained silent in this regard & only a Defense Ministry spox made comments?

The fact that only the military is talking about this incident is quite telling.
People in #Iran are saying propane gas are stored in such sites. Their explosions are huge.

Here is one example from July 13, 2013 in Florida.
On Parchin

Testing of a UD3 neutron initiator is extensively discussed in the Nuclear Archive, helping explain the IAEA’s detection in 2015 of uranium from sampling done at the Parchin high explosive chamber in 2015, despite Iran’s extensive sanitization.
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/mobile/iran-defies-the-international-atomic-energy-agency
-Parchin was involved prior to 2004 in high explosive testing related to nuclear weapons development.
-Site was a key part of that nuclear weapons R&D effort.
-Info shows Iran conducted far more high explosive tests at the site than previously understood. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2018/10/23/new-information-about-the-parchin-site/
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