(Washington Post) Kay Armin Serjoie and Thomas Erdbrink - An explosion at a Revolutionary Guard Corps weapons depot near Tehran killed 17 soldiers Saturday, Iranian state TV reported. The base is a storage facility for rockets. Among the dead was Revolutionary Guards commander Hassan Tehrani Moqadam, a rocket expert and specialist in long-range missile research. The blast followed a sharp increase in recent years in explosions at industrial sites, key gas pipelines and Revolutionary Guard bases, which some in Iran attribute to sabotage by the U.S.
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