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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/world/middleeast/14tehran.html
18 Iran Guards Killed by Blast at Their Base
(New York Times) William Yong - An explosion on Tuesday at an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base near Khorramabad in southwestern Iran killed 18 and wounded 14 more, Iranian state media reported Wednesday. The Revolutionary Guards said the blast was caused by a fire spreading to an ammunition store at the base, which the research group Global Security says houses underground launching and storage facilities for Iran's medium-range Shahab-3 ballistic missiles. The base is close to Iran's restive Kurdistan region, the site in recent months of several attacks on Revolutionary Guards installations and personnel.