{"id":47400,"date":"2025-04-28T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=47400"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:05:08","slug":"fires-rage-2-days-after-iran-port-blast-killed-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/fires-rage-2-days-after-iran-port-blast-killed-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Fires Rage 2 Days after Iran Port Blast Killed 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters in Iran battled raging fires on Monday at the country&#8217;s largest commercial port, two days after a massive explosion killed at least 40 people, state TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>The blast took place on Saturday at Shahid Rajaee Port in Iran&#8217;s south near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a waterway through which one-fifth of global oil output passes.<\/p>\n<p>It killed at least 40 people and injured more than 1,000 others, officials said, after triggering smaller explosions and fires in nearby containers, said AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s state TV showed images of firefighters dousing the flames, and said the damage will be assessed after the fire is fully brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>Thick, swirling plumes of smoke rose over the stacked containers at the site, the TV images showed.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion but the port&#8217;s customs office said it likely resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazardous and chemical materials storage depot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters in Iran battled raging fires on Monday at the country&#8217;s largest commercial port, two days after a massive explosion killed at least 40 people, state TV reported. The blast took place on Saturday at Shahid Rajaee Port in Iran&#8217;s south near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a waterway through which one-fifth of global oil &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47401,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47400\/revisions\/47401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}