New explosion In Iran..Lebabon rockets hit Israel..UK embassy attacked

http://www.canada.com/news/Explosion%20Iran%20raises%20suspicions%20attack%20nuclear%20missile%20program/5779476/story.html

A large explosion was reported on Monday night in the Iranian city of Isfahan as the regime issued conflicting reports, apparently designed to deny suggestions of a sabotage on its nuclear facilities.

Officials gave varying accounts of a “huge explosion” in the city, which hosts one of Iran’s main facilities for refining uranium in its nuclear program.

While some sources told news agencies there had been a blast on military facilities, others said there had been a fireball at a petrol station.

Residents were independently telling relatives and friends overseas that the city had been shaken by a massive blast in the early afternoon.

Security experts speculated Iran had suffered another blow to its program to build nuclear-capable missiles.

Isfahan is home to Iran’s largest facility for research and development of ballistic missiles. Multiple reports said the blast did not emanate from the nuclear facility. Alireza Zakeri, the provincial governor of Isfahan, was quoted as saying the blast took place at a military airbase.

“An explosion has happened in Isfahan related to a military exercise in one part of the city and is not particularly any problem,” he said.

Gholamreza Ansari, the head of the judiciary in the province, also confirmed there was a blast. The Mehr News Agency, however, reported that the blast was at a fuel facility. There were no reports of casualties.

Confusion was compounded by the withdrawal of the original report on Fars, a news outfit linked to the Revolutionary Guards, which first reported the blast. The incident comes just two weeks after the head of Iran’s ballistic missile development program was killed in a massive blast 25 miles south of Iran.

Iran said that incident was an accident that occurred in routine manoeuvres.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/29/us-israel-lebanon-idUSTRE7AS04K20111129

Several rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel on Tuesday, and the Jewish state returned fire across the border in response, military officials said.

Two buildings in the western Galilee area were damaged, Israeli media said, but there were no reported casualties. Residents said they heard two explosions and that houses shook.

An Israeli military spokesman said the rockets were the first fired since 2009 across a border where a 34-day war was fought in 2006 between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas based in Lebanon.

“Several rockets hit the western Galilee. The Israeli army considers the incident severe and is targeting origins of fire,” said a statement from the military spokesman’s office.

The Ynet news Web site said residents saw plumes of smoke where the rockets struck.

The Israeli-Lebanese border has been largely quiet in recent years, though some have worried about a possible spillover of tensions from a months-old revolt in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad and from a stiffening of Western sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15936213

Protesters in the Iranian capital, Tehran, have broken into the UK embassy compound during a demonstration against sanctions imposed by Britain.

Militant students are reported to have ransacked offices, burned the British flag and smashed embassy windows.

The move comes after Iran resolved to reduce ties following the UK’s decision to impose further sanctions on it.

Iran expressed “regret” over the attack on the embassy. The Foreign Office has summoned an Iranian diplomat in London.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said: “The attack on the British embassy in Tehran today was outrageous and indefensible.”

UK Foreign Secretary Hague said the Iranian charge d’affaires had been summoned, adding: “Clearly there will be other, further, and serious consequences.”

The Foreign Office urged Britons in Iran to “stay indoors, keep a low profile and await further advice”.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry expressed “regret for certain unacceptable behaviour by a small number of protesters in spite of efforts by the police”.

“The relevant authorities have been asked to take the necessary measures and look into this issue immediately,” it said.

The students clashed with riot police and chanted “the embassy of Britain should be taken over” and “death to England”.

Students were said to have ransacked offices inside the building, and one protester was reported to be waving a framed picture of Queen Elizabeth II.

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another explosion..receiving no air time..lebanon fires rockets into israel..the first time since the war..and israel fires back..and then state sponsored protesters ransack the english embassy in tehran..shit is really warming up..not good..

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~ by seeker401 on November 30, 2011.