Reports and video footage posted on social media show heavy smoke and a massive fire raging in eastern and southern Tehran on Wednesday evening, according to unverified reports. Iranian state media attributed the blaze to a carpet warehouse on Rey Street. The cause remains unknown.
Iranian official media now attribute the massive fire in southern Tehran to a carpet warehouse on Rey Street, as of around 20:35 local time Wednesday (16:35 UTC). The blaze, which social media footage shows producing thick black smoke and towering flames, had been reported earlier as engulfing a 2,000-square-meter warehouse in the southern part of the capital. The cause remains unknown, and there is no official word on casualties or containment.
The Zioneer first reported smoke in central Tehran from opposition channels at 19:38 UTC, followed by identification of the location as Kiam Square in District 12. By the next update, at 19:38 UTC, footage and reports had shifted the scene to a carpet warehouse in southern Tehran, now confirmed by official media as being on Rey Street. The thread thus evolved from unverified opposition reports and a specific square location to a larger incident at a specific commercial warehouse, with corroboration from state-aligned sources.
The broader context includes a separate reporting thread on explosions near the Iraq border in southern Iran earlier Wednesday, as tracked by The Zioneer. No link between that incident and the Tehran fire has been established. Unrelated background items in The Zioneer's record include a fire in Kermanshah and multiple blazes in Israel, none of which bear on this event.
The fire's cause remains unverified, with no independent confirmation of damage extent or whether the blaze has been contained. The official media attribution to a carpet warehouse on Rey Street has not been independently corroborated, and no casualty information has been released.
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