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Official denies attack on Iran`s nuclear, oil facilities

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Bushehr, Feb 16, IRNA -- Governor General of the southern province of 
Bushehr Esmaeel Tabadar here on Wednesday has denied any attack on 
Iran`s nuclear and oil facilities in the province. 
Tabadar told IRNA that foreign media had in a targeted move 
falsely mentioned the sound of a blast heard from a mountainous region
220 kilometers north of Bushehr nuclear power plant before noon 
Wednesday as an attack on the power plant. 
He said that although the Wednesday pre-noon blast in the 
mountainous region east of Daylam port in northern Bushehr province 
was an insignificant issue, military experts immediately headed to 
the region aboard a helicopter to identify the cause of the incident. 
He added that the experts had strongly rejected any military 
invasion of the site. 
The official reiterated that the site of the explosion had been a 
mountainous region in the north of Bushehr province, which is 
uninhabited. 
An informed source said the minor explosion might have have been 
set off in a mountainous region east of Daylam port 220 kilometers 
north of Bushehr before noon on Wednesday by Oil Ministry contractors,
while attempting to clear the ground for implementing oil projects. 
He said the use of dynamite to clear the rough mountainous terrain
for roads to implement oil projects is a usual procedure. 
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