[ April 19, 2026 ]
Unconfirmed reports suggest this was an arms shipment from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to Hizb’Allah that exploded in Bandar Abbas at the Shahid Rajaii port.
47 casualties.
BREAKING: A massive mysterious explosion just rocked Iran’s Shahid Rajaee port — the ground shook for miles.
The regime did not comment on this yet. pic.twitter.com/InAyCvaNQZ
— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) April 26, 2025
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This is Bandar Abbas, in Iran, right now… pic.twitter.com/D5B58TDEdM
— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) April 26, 2025
From Bandar Abbas, Iran.
WHAT
A
SHOCKWAVE.
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 26, 2025
🔴 Bandar Abbas, Iran right now.
Don't jump to conclusions yet. Mullah incompetence and hot weather causes yearly explosions.
Too early to tell if it's sabotage.
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 26, 2025
🔴 IRAN:
The Bandar Abbas explosion was so powerful it destroyed buildings and injured people 100s of meters away.
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 26, 2025
Bandar Abbas is where Khamenei ships weapons and supplies to the Houthis from, by the way. pic.twitter.com/4LeorF98LH
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 26, 2025
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A massive explosion, possibly caused by ammonium nitrate the same highly-explosive chemical which caused the Beirut explosion in 2020, has rocked the port of Bandar Abbas this morning in Southern Iran. Iranian media is reporting over 400 injures, while the death toll is still… pic.twitter.com/TrVkR70Zzy
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 26, 2025
Massive explosion and blaze at Iranian port kills at least 4, injures over 500
Cause of huge blast at Shahid Rajaee not clear, although state TV cites ‘negligence’; coincides with US-Iran nuclear talks; same port hit by suspected Israeli cyber attack in 2020
By Agencies Today, April 26, 2025:
Footage posted to social media shows blasts following the explosion of several containers at Shahid Rajaee port, Iran’s largest port, in southwest Iran on April 26, 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
At least four people were killed and more than 500 injured in a powerful explosion on Saturday that ripped through a vital port in southern Iran, state media said, with the cause of the blast not immediately clear..
“Unfortunately, at least four deaths have been confirmed by rescuers,” the head of the Red Crescent Society’s Relief and Rescue Organization, Babak Mahmoudi, told state TV.
State media reported a “massive explosion” at Shahid Rajaee, the country’s largest commercial port, located in Hormozgan province on Iran’s southern coast.
ADVERTISEMENTCiting local emergency services, state television reported that many “people have been injured, dozens of whom have been transferred to nearby medical centers,” revising earlier tolls.
“The explosion occurred in a part of the Shahid Rajaee port dock, and we are extinguishing the fire,” state TV quoted Esmaeil Malekizadeh, a regional port official, as saying.
Efforts were ongoing to extinguish a significant fire, with the port’s customs saying that trucks were being evacuated from the area and that the container yard where the explosion occurred likely contained “dangerous goods and chemicals.”
State TV said “negligence in handling flammable materials was a contributing factor” in the explosion.
Shahid Rajaee, more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital Tehran, is the most advanced container port in Iran, according to the official IRNA news agency.
It is located 23 kilometers west of Bandar Abbas, the Hormozgan provincial capital, and north of the Strait of Hormuz through which a fifth of the world’s oil output passes.\
Footage on state TV showed thick columns of black smoke billowing from the port area where many containers are located.As emergency services dispatched rapid response teams to the port, First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref ordered an investigation to determine the cause of the blast and assess the extent of the damage, according to the ISNA news agency.
Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, head of Hormozgan province’s crisis management authority, told state TV that “the cause of this incident was the explosion of several containers stored in the Shahid Rajaee Port wharf area.”
“We are currently evacuating and transporting the injured to nearby medical centers,” he said.
A helicopter flies above the smoke following an explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port dock southwest of Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan on April 26, 2025. (Photo by MOHAMMAD RASOLE MORADI / IRNA / AFP)The explosion was so powerful that it could be felt and heard some 50 kilometers away, Fars news agency reported, with residents saying they could feel the ground shake even at a distance from the port.
“The shockwave was so strong that most of the port buildings were severely damaged,” Tasnim news agency reported.
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