An explosion at a base belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has killed 18 people and injured 14.
Reports are emerging of the blast at an ammunitions store on Tuesday in north-western Lorestan province.
The injured were taken to Khoramabad, 300 miles (500 km) southwest of Tehran.
An elite military force, the Revolutionary Guard was set up shortly after the 1979 Iranian revolution to defend the country’s Islamic system.
It has since become a major military, political and economic force in Iran.
The north west of Iran has seen several attacks in recent months by Kurdish militants against the Iranian military.
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