{"id":13587,"date":"2025-07-14T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13587"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:04:13","slug":"seven-injured-in-irans-qom-residential-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13587","title":{"rendered":"Seven injured in Iran&#8217;s Qom residential blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An explosion at a residential building injured seven people in the Pardisan neighbourhood of Qom city, Iran&#8217;s semi-official Fars news agency reported, going on to quote an unnamed source saying it was not the result of any Israeli attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four residential units were damaged in the blast. Initial assessments show that the cause of the incident was a gas leak, and follow-ups are continuing in this regard,&#8221; the director of Qom&#8217;s fire department told Fars.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the residents of the building were ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Read: The Iran-Israel war: lessons learnt and unlearnt<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s regional arch-rival Israel has a record of assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists, whom it considers part of a programme that directly threatens Israel. Tehran maintains its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Since the end of a 12-day war last month between Iran and Israel, in which Israel and the United States attacked Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities, several explosions have occurred in Iran, but authorities have not blamed Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People should not worry about rumours (of Israeli attacks). If a hostile action occurs in the country, the news will immediately reach the people and alarm bells will simultaneously be activated in the Occupied Territories,&#8221; Fars quoted an unnamed Iranian source as saying following the blast in Qom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion at a residential building injured seven people in the Pardisan neighbourhood of Qom city, Iran&#8217;s semi-official Fars news agency reported, going on to quote an unnamed source saying it was not the result of any Israeli attack. &#8220;Four residential units were damaged in the blast. Initial assessments show that the cause of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}