Gas Leak in IRGC Center Kills 1, Injures 10

Motorists drive under an anti-Israel poster in the capital Tehran on August 27, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
Motorists drive under an anti-Israel poster in the capital Tehran on August 27, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
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Gas Leak in IRGC Center Kills 1, Injures 10

Motorists drive under an anti-Israel poster in the capital Tehran on August 27, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
Motorists drive under an anti-Israel poster in the capital Tehran on August 27, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

A gas leak caused the death of one person and injured 10 others at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center, Iranian state television reported.
The leak occurred at a workshop belonging to the Guard in Isfahan province and the injured people were transferred to a hospital for medical treatment, the report said.
According to The Associated Press, the report did not say how the people were injured or give other details.
The gas leak happened while tensions have remained high since Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed on July 31 in the Iranian capital.
Iran accused Israel of the death of Haniyeh, but Israel has not taken responsibility for the assassination. Iranian top officials vowed to retaliate against Israel for the killing of Haniyeh.



Israeli FM Accuses ‘Octopus’ Khamenei of Smuggling Weapons into West Bank via Jordan

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz (AFP)
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz (AFP)
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Israeli FM Accuses ‘Octopus’ Khamenei of Smuggling Weapons into West Bank via Jordan

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz (AFP)
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz (AFP)

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused on Thursday Iran of attempting to establish an “eastern terror front” against Israel via Jordan, the Times of Israel reported.

Katz — who has faced some criticism for his style of online diplomatic attacks — published an AI-generated image showing Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei as an octopus with many tentacles.

The foreign minister said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is smuggling weapons from Syria into Jordan, “attempting to destabilize the regime and turn the Israel-Jordan border from a peaceful one into a volatile front.”

The weapons are then brought into the West Bank, he added, “where an Iranian-Hamas terror infrastructure is being established.”

Katz called for a security fence to be built “quickly” along the Israel-Jordan border, something that has been promised for more than a decade by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but has been dismissed by security officials as a pipe dream.