TEHRAN, Iran — A hearth in a storage space of an Iranian protection ministry’s automotive battery manufacturing facility north of the capital has been extinguished, state TV reported Friday.
The fireplace occurred round midnight in a 2-square-kilometer (about 500-acre) storage space of plastic objects within the manufacturing facility north of Tehran. Firefighters have been capable of put out the hearth with no casualties and the trigger is beneath investigation, the report mentioned.
It didn’t point out any potential injury from the hearth. Iran’s protection ministry has lengthy owned the most important and oldest automotive battery factories in Iran.
Incidents on the nation’s protection trade websites have elevated lately, and Iran has blamed Israel for assaults or sabotage.
In August, Iran accused Israel of attempting to sabotage its ballistic missile program by way of defective international elements that might explode, damaging or destroying the weapons earlier than they may very well be used.
In 2022, an explosion at a navy and weapons growth base east of Tehran referred to as Parchin killed an engineer and wounded one other.
