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Iranian Officials Suspect Sabotage in Mysterious Fires
Iranian Officials Suspect Sabotage in Mysterious Fires
July 23, 2025 at 5:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2025/07/23/iranian-officials-suspect-sabotage-in-mysterious-fires/
“For more than two weeks, mysterious explosions and fires have erupted across Iran, setting ablaze apartment complexes and oil refineries, a road outside a major airport and even a shoe factory,” the New York Times reports.
“In public, Iranian officials have shrugged off the events as mere coincidence or blamed aging infrastructure, trying to soothe the frayed nerves of a population still traumatized by the country’s war with Israel and the United States in June.”
“But in private, three Iranian officials, including a member of the country’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said they believed that many of them were acts of sabotage.”