Iran: Blast at Iran revolutionary guards base kills 18 people, 14 wounded
An explosion at a base belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has killed 18 people and injured 14.
Reports are emerging of the blast at an ammunitions store on Tuesday in north-western Lorestan province.
The injured were taken to Khoramabad, 300 miles (500 km) southwest of Tehran.
An elite military force, the Revolutionary Guard was set up shortly after the 1979 Iranian revolution to defend the country’s Islamic system.
The north-west of Iran has seen several attacks in recent months by Kurdish militants against the Iranian military.
The military is fighting armed groups and separatist movements in the south-east along the border with Pakistan as well as in the far north-west along the border with Iraq.