An image circulating on social media purporting to show a fire at the Nadasa Power Plant in Chabahar, Iran, is old and irrelevant, The Zioneer reports. The image was previously reported as unverified; a review of available evidence established it is not from any current incident.
At 23:43 Jerusalem, The Zioneer issued a correction: an image it had reported at 23:42 as showing a fire at the Nadasa Power Plant in Chabahar, Iran, is old and unrelated to any current incident. The correction came within one minute of the initial report, after a review of available evidence established the image's provenance as originating from an earlier event.
That initial image report was the latest in a sequence of unverified reports about Chabahar and Bushehr that began at 23:20 Jerusalem on Wednesday. The thread started with a single report of an explosion in Bushehr, then expanded to include additional explosions in Bushehr and Chabahar, power outages in Chabahar, and a report of a power station attack in Chabahar — all published at 23:20 Jerusalem. The image report at 23:42 was the first visual claim specific to the Nadasa Power Plant, but it was quickly corrected.
As The Zioneer reported at 23:20 Jerusalem, the unverified reports of a power station attack in Chabahar came from Iranian Telegram channels, and Israeli journalist Asaf Rozenzweig reported additional explosions in Bandar Abbas and Chabahar. Those reports remain unverified and have not been commented on by Iranian state media.
The cause and scope of the original explosions and power outages in Chabahar and Bushehr remain unconfirmed. The correction of the image does not directly affect those earlier reports, which are still under assessment.
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