Warnings about Shahran oil depot; "A disaster more terrible than Beirut" lurks in Tehran

A day after a member of the Tehran City Council warned about the dangers of having oil storage facilities inside residential areas, the head of the Tehran Crisis Management Organization also called chemical storage facilities inside Tehran a concern.

On Friday, August 8, Reza Karami Mohammadi announced that the municipality's crisis management warnings about chemical warehouses inside Tehran have not been heeded so far, and said that the Beirut disaster showed that the removal of chemical warehouses from cities, like the removal of oil warehouses from cities and the Be'sat warehouse, is a national demand.

Yesterday, following the release of news of an explosion at an ammonium nitrate storage facility in Beirut, which caused significant loss of life and property, Majid Farahani, a member of the Tehran City Council, announced that due to the presence of an oil storage facility within the city's residential area, "a disaster more terrible than Beirut" is lurking in Tehran.
He called this oil depot "a hydrogen bomb inside the city," built on the "Mesha earthquake fault," located in the heart of the residential area northwest of Tehran, and every day, about three hundred thirty-thousand-liter tankers load fuel from the supertankers.

His words sparked many reactions on social media, with many users expressing concern about the safety situation in Tehran. Vahid Norouzi, a former manager of Tehran Municipality, also posted a message on his Twitter account, referring to the city council member's words, saying that the safety and technical conditions of the 3,000 gas-powered buses, which are more than 15 years old, have turned these vehicles into moving time bombs.