An explosion hit a power plant in central Iran’s Isfahan province on Sunday, the state-run IRNA news agency reported, saying it was on faulty equipment and caused no casualties. A “worn-out transformer … at Isfahan’s Islamabad Thermal Power Plant exploded around 5:00 am today,” Isfahan Electric Company Managing Director Said Mohseni told the agency.
The facility returned to normal working conditions after approximately two hours and Isfahan’s power supply was uninterrupted, he added.
The incident is the last of a chain of fires and explosions at military and civilian sites across Iran in recent weeks.
Two explosions rocked Tehran in late June, one near a military site and the other at a health center, the last killing 19 people.
The fires or explosions also affected a shipyard in southern Iran last week, a factory in southern Tehran with two deaths and the Natanz nuclear complex in central Iran earlier this month.
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Iranian authorities called the Natanz fire an accident without giving further details, and then said they would not disclose the cause, citing “security reasons.”
The series of fires and explosions has sparked speculation in Iran that it may be the result of sabotage by arch-enemy Israel.
The Jewish state accuses the Islamic Republic of seeking to acquire a nuclear bomb, while Tehran insists that its nuclear program is completely peaceful.
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