UPDATE 5-Huge blast kills 17 at Iran military base

* blast at ammo store causes explosion felt for miles  * official says "incident" happened while moving munitions  * comes as tensions with israel high over nuclear issue (releads with revised death toll)  by ramin mostafavi  tehran ugg rea, nov 12 (reuters) - a massive explosion at amilitary arms depot near the iranian capital tehran on saturdaykilled 17 revolutionary guards and wounded 15 ugg damen, a spokesman forthe elite fighting force told the semi-official fars newsagency.  officials said the blast was an accident which happened astroops were moving munitions at a base in bidganeh ugg boots, near thetown of shahriar, some 45 km (28 miles) west of tehran.  the explosion shook homes and rattled windows for milesaround ugg i sverige, at a time of mounting tension with israel over iran'snuclear programme.  "today at 13:30, (0900 gmt) venta ugg, an explosion happened in one ofthe revolutionary guards' bases while a consignment of explosivedevices was being moved out from the arsenal ugg billig, besides that somemunitions in the arsenal exploded which created a terrifyingsound www.uggbotasventa.net," revolutionary guards spokesman ramezan sharif told statetv.  sharif initially said 27 people had been killedbut later revised that figure down to 17.  residents in western suburbs of tehran told reuters they hadfelt the blast, some assuming it to be a moderate earthquake.   the explosion started a fire at the base which raged forhours. surrounding streets were closed and reporters were keptaway from the scene.    risk  some media reported there had been two explosions and thehead of iran's red crescent organisation said there was a riskof further blasts.   mahmoud mozafar told the mehr news agency that only sixparamedics had been allowed into the amir al-momenin militarybase and that thick smoke was hampering the rescue operation.  there were no reports linking the blast to any air strike orother attack. tension has risen in recent weeks between iran andits enemies israel and the united states, which have not ruledout attacking facilities whose occupants they believe areworking towards making nuclear weapons.  sharif denied what he said was speculation in the westernmedia that the military base was linked to iran's nuclearprogramme.  "this blast is not related to any nuclear tests that someforeign media have reported ugg zapatos," he told mehr.   tehran denies western accusations www.uggoutletdeutschland.com, that were given somecredence by a report from the un nuclear agency this week, thatits nuclear programme has military ends.  on oct. 12 last year a similar blast at a revolutionaryguards munitions store killed and wounded several servicemen inkhoramabad, western iran. authorities said that explosion was anaccident too. (additional reporting by mitra amiri and hossein jaseb; writingby robin pomeroy; editing by tim pearce)     
  
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