The complex – in Shahriar county in Tehran Province – is a crucial Ministry of Defense site located in a heavily fortified area adjacent to an Air Force garrison and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Centre for Missile Research.
Immediately after the explosions at 2pm, the complex’s director ordered the authorities in writing to avoid giving out any information about the blasts and the damage or losses inflicted.
In order to prevent information about the location and details of the explosions from leaking out, fire-fighters were denied entry to the complex and only the complex’s internal fire-fighters were mobilised to put out the fires.
The regime’s security apparatus also announced through a prepared news release handed to state media that the explosion occurred in the storage area of a chemical factory belonging to a private company in the town of Shahriar.
On November 12, 2011, a huge explosion in another IRGC missile base in this same area killed Brig. General Hassan Moghaddam and other guards and other officials involved in the mullahs’ missile projects.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 7, 2013