Iranian navy’s largest ship sank after mystery blast in ‘engine room’ & burned for 20 hours in Gulf of Oman

IRAN's largest navy ship caught fire after a mysterious blast in the "engine room" and burned for 20 hours in the Gulf of Oman before sinking.


The blaze broke out onboard the British-built Kharg during a training mission at around 2.25am today.

It's reported the vessel sank near the port of Jask on the Gulf of Oman.

"All efforts to save the vessel were unsuccessful and it sank," Iran's Fars news agency reported.

The entire crew managed to evacuate the ship and pictures shared on Iranian social media showed images of sailors wearing life jackets as they fled the vessel.

The ship was on fire for 20 hours as military officials battled to extinguish the flames before it finally went down.

Tehran-based defence and security expert Hossein Dalirian said "speculations about attacks on the ship are not true".

"This happened due to a technical defect in the engine room," he tweeted.

Iranian state media also suggested an electrical fire may have broken out shortly after 2am.

The military has not confirmed the cause of the blaze.

The fire occurred in the Gulf of Oman - a waterway that is connected to the Strait of Hormuz where around a fifth of the world's oil passes through.

The Kharg was built in Britain in 1977 and entered the Iranian navy in 1984 following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Named after the Iranian island that is the site of its main oil refinery, the ship can lift heavy cargo and acts as a launch pad for helicopters.

The blaze comes just a week after a major explosion occurred at a drone factory in Iran, injuring nine.

The reason behind the blast remains unknown but it happened just days after Israel accused Tehran of providing support to Hamas during the recent conflict in Gaza.

Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of arming Hamas militants by helping develop deadly missiles to strike strategic targets in Israel.

The weapons were thought to be manufactured in Gaza based on an Iranian design.

Hamas has previously relied on short-range Qassam rockets which have a range of around six miles.

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Lets us all pretend as usual we don't know the source of the mysterious explosion

Let Iran reply with equal forces all Muslim becomes terrorist world wide

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Spotted where

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Las las they will shift the blame to Israel.