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Iran accused of ‘covering up’ death toll in port explosion amid concerns of uprising

FIRST ON FOX: The Islamic Republic of Iran is suspected of «covering up» the true extent of the devastating explosion that rocked the Shahid Rajaee port in Iran’s southern coastal town of Bandar Abbas.
On Tuesday, the death toll reported from Tehran after the explosion had risen to 70, with another 1,200 said to have been injured from the blast. But, according to information from eyewitnesses and the impacts of the blast radius, those figures are expected to be drastically underreported amid concerns of escalating internal unrest, sources have told Fox News Digital.
According to information provided by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the actual death toll from the catastrophic explosion is suspected to be closer to 250, with an estimated 1,500 injured.
People walk after an explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port in Bandar Abbas, Iran, April 26, 2025. (Mohammad Rasoul Moradi/IRNA/WANA via Reuters )
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«The true death toll is several times higher than officially reported,» Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the NCRI, said in a statement. «The IRGC, intelligence forces and other organs of repression have mobilized — not to contain the fires or rescue the wounded — but to control the situation and cover up the shipment of solid fuel for ballistic missiles and the full scale of the disaster.»
The blast originated after a cargo container suspected to be holding sodium perchlorate, a propellant for missiles, including solid fuel in ballistic missiles, apparently caught fire.
Footage of the blast showed the substantial damage caused to shipping containers, nearby offices and a massive crater left by the explosion. Anyone within 200 feet of the blast is believed to have been killed, according to sources.
One witness told the NCRI, «The security situation is very severe. We are all trapped in our homes and have been told not to go outside. The number of casualties is greater than you can imagine. My brother, who works at the dock, said many drivers were pulverized.»

A satellite image shows Shahid Rajaee port in Bandar Abbas, Iran, April 9, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC/Handout via Reuters )
One worker who survived the explosion told the NCRI, «The port and offices no longer exist.»
«The shockwave from the explosion was so strong that it caused colleagues’ eyes to pop out,» the survivor said. «Security forces have closed off the area, and no one is being allowed in.
«In the initial explosion, 15 firefighters were killed. All the staff in the administrative building were also killed.»
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Another survivor accused the regime of «concealing the statistics» by sending Revolutionary Guard forces and intelligence agents to the site of the explosion.
The survivor also pointed out that «chemical and military materials» should not have been at the port to begin with and noted that the workers at the massive site were unaware of its presence.

A satellite image shows rising smoke after the previous day’s explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port in Bandar Abbas, Iran, April 28, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC/Handout via Reuters )
Iran’s interior minister said the fire likely started due to «negligence» because the cargo was improperly stored, the BBC reported Tuesday.
Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni said «shortcomings, including noncompliance with safety precautions and negligence» led to the blast.
The officials also said «some individuals deemed responsible» had been summoned, but the regime has yet to admit that any cargo units were holding missile propellant at the civilian shipping center, which is also Iran’s largest port.
The Wall Street Journal in January reported that two solid fuel shipments had been sent from China to Iran, though it is unclear if this cargo had ever been moved off site or if additional sodium perchlorate had been sent to this port.
In a meeting that appeared to take place Sunday between Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and regional and port officials, the president appeared to suggest that cargo shipments should not be permitted to stay on site for months at a time and said distribution processes need to be accelerated.
In the aftermath of the explosion, Iran reportedly cordoned off the site, evacuating surrounding areas, placing security agents at local hospitals and accusing the media of perpetuating false stories about the explosion.

In this photo provided by the Islamic Republic News Agency, firefighters work as black smoke rises in the sky after a massive explosion rocked a port near the southern city of Bandar Abbas, Iran, April 26, 2025. (Mohammad Rasoul Moradi/IRNA via AP)
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«The sole party responsible for this tragedy is none other than Khamenei’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), whose smuggling of various materials from abroad fuels the manufacture of missiles and other weaponry,» Ali Safavi of the NCRI told Fox News Digital.
«In the face of this disaster, rather than rushing to aid the wounded or recover the bodies of the deceased, the clerical regime — gripped by fear of a public outcry — has instead issued stern warnings against the dissemination of news, images and videos of the explosion, threatening severe legal repercussions against those who dare to expose the truth.»
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Misión Artemis II de la NASA: los astronautas se preparan para navegar el lado oculto de la Luna

Los astronautas de Artemis II ya comienzan a visualizar el lado oculo de la Luna y en una hora, los astronautas quedarán detrás de la Tierra, por lo que la cápsula Orión perderá toda comunicación con nuestro planeta durante 40 minutos, según predijo la NASA.
“Cuando Orión pase por detrás de la Luna, aproximadamente a las 18:44 EDT o 22.44 GMT, la misión entrará en un periodo de interrupción de comunicaciones programado que durará unos 40 minutos. Durante este tiempo, la Luna bloquea las señales de radio necesarias para que la Red del Espacio Profundo mantenga contacto con la nave espacial”, explicó la NASA.
Y agregó: “Poco después de la pérdida de señal, se espera que Orión alcance su punto más cercano a la Luna alrededor de las 19:02 EDT o 23.02 GMT, cuando estará a tan solo 6530 kilómetros de la superficie lunar”.
La tripulación de Artemis II dedicó este lunes un cráter lunar recién observado al recordar a Carroll, la esposa fallecida en 2020 del comandante Reid Wiseman, durante su histórica misión que marca la mayor distancia alcanzada por seres humanos respecto a la Tierra.
El astronauta Jeremy Hansen, de la Agencia Espacial Canadiense, fue el responsable de anunciar el gesto y precisó: “Su nombre era Carroll; la esposa de Reid Wiseman, la madre de Katie y Ellie, (el cráter) es un punto brillante en la Luna, y nosotros queremos llamarla Carroll”. Así, la NASA y la CSA aprovecharon el momento para rendir tributo a familiares perdidos.
Durante la jornada, Wiseman y sus compañeros Victor Glover y Christina Koch se tomaron varios segundos para unirse en homenaje y recordaron a sus seres queridos fallecidos tras lograr el récord de distancia alcanzado en una misión tripulada.

Los astronautas de Artemis II mostraron nuevas imágenes de la Luna. “Es tan genial”, celebraron, al observar de cerca detalles sobre vieja actividad volcánica en el satélite natural.
Cuando Orión pase por detrás de la Luna, aproximadamente a las 18:44 hora EDT local, la misión entrará en un periodo de interrupción de comunicaciones programado que durará unos 40 minutos. Durante este tiempo, la Luna bloquea las señales de radio necesarias para que la Red del Espacio Profundo mantenga contacto con la nave espacial.
Poco después de la pérdida de señal, se espera que Orión alcance su punto más cercano a la Luna alrededor de las 19:02, cuando estará a tan solo 6530 kilómetros de la superficie lunar.
Los astronautas de Artemis II casi que no tuvieron tiempo de celebrar el récord de mayor distancia alcanzada por un ser humano desde la Tierra, ya que están preparando todo lo relativo a tomar imágenes en video y fotografía del lado oculto de la Luna, que ocurrirá en las próximas horas.
Además de las fotos que tomarán los astronautas, la cobertura de la NASA incluirá imágenes en directo de la Luna captadas por cámaras instaladas en los paneles solares de la nave Orión.
“La calidad de la imagen y la visualización pueden variar a lo largo del período de observación lunar debido a la distancia a la Tierra, las limitaciones del sistema y el ancho de banda de la red de comunicaciones de la NASA”, aclaró la agencia espacial estadounidense.
Récord de mayor distancia humana a la Tierra

La NASA comunicó que los astronautas Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch y Jeremy Hansen son las personas que más lejos han estado de nuestro planeta en la historia. La anterior marca correspondía a la tripulación el Apolo 13 que no pudo alunizar pero la sobrevoló a 400.171,5 kilómetros de la Tierra.
Los astronautas se preparan para romper en menos de 15 minutos el récord de mayor distancia que alguna vez un humano estuvo más lejos de la Tierra.
El trayecto de Artemis II contempla una distancia máxima de 406.777,9 kilómetros desde la Tierra, cifra que supera el récord histórico de la misión Apolo 13, cuyo máximo fue de 400.171,5 kilómetros. La cápsula Orión completará así el viaje tripulado más lejano de la historia, llevando a Koch, Wiseman, Glover y Hansen a convertirse en los seres humanos que más lejos viajaron desde nuestro planeta.

Los horarios de la llegada a la Luna de Artemis II
Los horarios corresponden a la hora este de EEUU o EDT. Para los horarios de Argentina hay que sumar una hora más. Para Colombia y Perú, dos horas menos. Para México y todo Centroamérica, tres horas menos.
- 13:00 (EDT) o 14 (hora argentina), 12 (hora Colombia y Perú), 11 (hora México) y 18 (hora España) : Inicio de la cobertura en NASA+ sobre el sobrevuelo lunar.
- 13:56: Superación del récord de distancia alcanzada por humanos desde la Tierra (Apolo 13, 1970).
- 14:10: Declaraciones de la tripulación (solo audio) tras batir el récord de distancia.
- 14:15: Configuración de la cabina de Orión para las operaciones de sobrevuelo.
- 14:45: Inicio de las observaciones lunares.
- 18:44: Prevista la pérdida de comunicaciones al dirigirse a la cara oculta de la Luna (aproximadamente 40 minutos).
- 19:02: Máximo acercamiento de Orión a la Luna: 6.530 km (4.058 millas).
- 19:07: Orión alcanza su distancia máxima de la Tierra: 252.757 millas (406.127 km).
- 19:25: Amanecer terrestre; se prevé el restablecimiento de comunicaciones.
- 20:35-21:32: Eclipse solar, durante el que el Sol se ocultará tras la Luna según la percepción de la tripulación.
- 21:20: Finalización de la observación lunar.
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Steve Daines’ handpicked Senate successor Kurt Alme vows to keep Montana in Republican hands in 2026

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FIRST ON FOX: Montana will again have a new face coming to the Senate, with Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., bowing out. His chosen successor knows he was picked to stop Democrats from taking the seat.
Former U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme was handpicked by Daines at the last minute to replace him, and he has no qualms about it as Republicans try to maintain their majority in the upper chamber in a midterm election cycle that is historically a referendum on the party — and president — in control.
«Knowing how important it was for Republicans to hold the Senate, I told him if he decided to retire, I would be interested,» Alme told Fox News Digital in an interview.
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Former U.S. District Attorney Kurt Alme knows he was tapped to replace outgoing Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., to maintain the GOP’s majority in the Senate, and he’s ready to lean into his bona fides to keep the Treasure State red. (Alme Campaign)
Daines, who was seeking a third term in the Senate, dropped out of the race in early March, withdrawing his name just as the registration deadline in Montana was approaching. As he bowed out, Alme leapt in.
The move drew heavy criticism from Daines’ opponents in the state and from Democrats in Washington, D.C., but Alme described the plan as one geared toward maintaining the balance of power in the upper chamber.
Seth Bodnar, the former University of Montana president who jumped into the race as an independent hours before Daines’ exit, said on X that the lawmaker had «so little respect for Montana Republicans that he withdrew at the last minute to coronate his handpicked successor instead of giving them a voice at the ballot box.»
«This is the disgusting arrogance of Washington politicians and their party bosses who trade power back and forth like candy while Montanans are crushed under higher costs and fewer opportunities,» Bodnar said.
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Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, plans to retire at the end of his term, opening up his seat in Big Sky Country as Republicans look to keep their grip in the upper chamber. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
It’s a move fitting for Daines, given that he has become one of Washington’s savviest political operators and played a key role in clinching Republicans’ Senate majority while serving as National Republican Senatorial Committee chair during the 2024 election cycle.
«The way it happened was Senator Daines called me a few days before the filing deadline, and he said he wanted to retire, but he didn’t want to lose the seat and the Senate to the Democrats,» Alme said. «He said he’d only retire if he knew someone like me would step up and keep the seat in Republican hands.»
«So then, the morning of the filing deadline, he let me know that he would withdraw if I stepped up. So I resigned as U.S. attorney and entered the race, and now, with President Trump’s endorsement, we’re moving forward full speed with the election,» he continued.
Alme quickly racked up endorsements from President Donald Trump, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte and his possible future colleague Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont. It’s no surprise, considering Trump twice tapped Alme to serve as U.S. attorney in the Treasure State and that he previously served as Gianforte’s budget director.
Trump said on Truth Social that «if Kurt didn’t have the highest level of aptitude and talent, Steve would have remained exactly where he is.»
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President Donald Trump credited his economic policies for the positive March jobs report. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
«But Kurt is exceptional, and I will be giving him, based on Steve’s strongest recommendation, my Complete and Total Endorsement,» Trump said.
Though Trump won Montana by nearly 20 points in 2024 and has consistently notched double-digit wins in his three bids for the White House, Alme’s ascension to the upper chamber isn’t guaranteed.
He’ll have to prevail in a three-way statewide contest against Bodnar, the independent, and the expected Democratic nominee, former Montana state Rep. Reilly Neill, who believes Daines’ exit will give her a boost.
«His stepping down opens the field for the United States Senate, and this is a good development for Montana,» Neill said.
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Still, Alme is leaning into his bona fides in his pitch to Montana voters, particularly when it comes to bringing back «fiscal discipline» and continuing the Trump administration’s crackdown on crime.
«I’ve got to go out and prove who I am, and I’m going to have to earn people’s votes,» Alme said.
«We think that the Republican platform — and certainly President Trump’s approach to governing — is a winner in Montana,» he continued. «And we think that if we stick to our conservative roots, we’re going to perform well against anyone.»
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