A spokesman for Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps says that a massive explosion at a military base west of the Iranian capital has killed 15 people.

State television quotes commander Ramezan Sharif as saying the 15 died in an explosion at an ammunition depot.

The explosion hit the base in Bid Ganeh, near the town of Malard on the western outskirts of Tehran, some 20 kilometers west of the city center.

The blast was so big it was felt in the western suburbs of Tehran, 45 kilometers away.

There were no reports linking the blast to any air strike or other attack.

On October 12, 2010, a similar blast at a Revolutionary Guards munitions store in Khoramabad in western Iran killed and wounded several servicemen.

Source : Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty