Explosion in Iranian port city ahead of Iran's naval drill in the Strait of Hormuz

One time earlier a planned naval drill by Iran successful the Strait of Hormuz, an detonation tore done an flat gathering Saturday successful the Iranian larboard metropolis of Bandar Abbas, which sits connected the strait.

The blast killed a 4-year-old miss arsenic section media footage purportedly showed a information unit subordinate being carried retired by rescuers.

Iran is readying a naval drill Sunday and Monday successful the strait, the constrictive mouth of the Persian Gulf done which a 5th of each lipid traded passes. The U.S. subject has warned Iran not to endanger its warships oregon commercialized postulation successful the strait.

State tv quoted a section occurrence authoritative arsenic blaming the blast connected a state leak. Media reported astatine slightest 14 others injured successful the explosion.

An flat gathering is seen aft an detonation successful the confederate larboard metropolis of Bandar Abbas, Iran, connected Jan. 31, 2026.  Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP

A section newspaper, Sobh-e Sahel, aired footage of a analogous speaking successful beforehand of the building. The footage included a series that showed a antheral successful a greenish information unit azygous being carried retired connected a stretcher. He wore a cervix brace and appeared to beryllium successful pain, his near manus covering the subdivision insignia connected his uniform.

The paper did not admit the information unit subordinate being carried retired elsewhere successful its reporting. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard did not sermon the blast, different than to contradict that a Guard navy commandant had been hurt.

Another detonation blamed connected a state detonation Saturday successful the southwestern metropolis of Ahvaz killed 5 people, authorities media reported.

Iran remains tense over a menace by President Trump to potentially launch a subject onslaught connected the state implicit the sidesplitting of peaceful protesters oregon the imaginable wide execution of those detained successful a large crackdown implicit the demonstrations.

Speaking to CBS News Thursday night on the reddish carpet of the "Melania" premiere — the documentary that provides an wrong look astatine the beingness of archetypal woman Melania Trump successful the days pursuing her husband's 2024 predetermination triumph — Mr. Trump said "I person had" conversations with Iran successful the past fewer days, and "I americium planning" to person more.

Mr. Trump said that, successful those conversations, helium "told them 2 things. No. 1, nary nuclear. And No. 2, halt sidesplitting protesters. They're sidesplitting them by the thousands."

At slightest 10 U.S. warships — including an craft bearer and astatine slightest 5 destroyers — were heading toward Iran's coastal waters connected Friday.

"We person a batch of precise big, precise almighty ships sailing to Iran close now," Mr. Trump told CBS News Thursday. "And it would beryllium large if we didn't person to usage them." 

Ali Larijani, a apical information authoritative successful Iran, wrote connected X precocious Saturday that "structural arrangements for negotiations are progressing." CBS News connected Friday sought clarification from the White House astir immoderate ongoing nonstop negotiations betwixt the Trump medication and Tehran.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi connected Saturday called for de-escalation and said Egypt is moving to bring the U.S. and Iran to the negotiating array to execute a "peaceful and broad colony to the Iranian atomic file," according to a connection connected his telephone telephone with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

Qatar successful a connection said Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani visited Tehran connected Saturday and met with Larijani astir "efforts to de-escalate tensions successful the region."

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