The death toll was initially mis-reported, however, the spokesman for the elite force told state television that the figure was 17, correcting a previous figure of 27.
“Unfortunately the fax that I received from the site of the incident was not legible, and the figure 27 was announced, whereas the number of martyrs stands at 17,” commander Ramezan Sharif said.
The explosion hit an ammunition depot at the base in Bid Ganeh, near the town of Malard on the western outskirts of Tehran, according to media reports.
It shattered the windows of residential neighbourhoods in the western suburbs of Tehran, witnesses told AFP.
“Initial investigations show the blast occurred as ammunition was being moved,” Sharif said earlier.
The deputy head of the national security commission, Esmaeel Kosari, said parliament would open a probe into the blast.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2011.
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Yeah....lets blame USA for every incompetence and event. What proof anyone has that this was done by the US. Probably their own radicals involved in it. Iran is a terrorist state that kills its own people in the name of faith and politics. Iran terribly needs a regime change!
nyce job...mossad, cia....so the ball has started rolling to the liking of US and a new adventure for another 10 years.GOOD BYEE TO PEACE...GOOD BYE TO REASONING...unless we say GOOD BYE U.S.
@mmm...': Or maybe it was classic iranian incompetence.
CIA & Mossad are masters of sabotage and killing. After failing to confront iran malitarily the "Mighty & Rightious" US of A is resorting to this cowardly terrorist acts and yet they lecture PAK for even if a toilet is found broken in Afganistan.
Nice job mossad...