<p>An explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday, state broadcaster IRIB said, citing online reports that officials in that part of the city denied.</p>.<p>IRIB said power was cut in the area of the city suburbs where the blast occurred. It provided no further information about the cause of the blast or possible casualties.</p>.<p>The governor of Qods city, Leila Vaseghi, was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency as saying no explosion had occurred, but that there was a power outage that lasted about five minutes.</p>.<p>The head of the fire department in Qods city denied receiving any reports of an incident or explosion in the past 24 hours, IRIB reported.</p>.<p>It was not immediately clear if the reported incident had taken place in Qods or in a different area of western Tehran, and residents contacted by Reuters in other parts of the city said they had heard no explosion.</p>.<p>There have been several explosions around Iranian military, nuclear and industrial facilities since late June.</p>
<p>An explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday, state broadcaster IRIB said, citing online reports that officials in that part of the city denied.</p>.<p>IRIB said power was cut in the area of the city suburbs where the blast occurred. It provided no further information about the cause of the blast or possible casualties.</p>.<p>The governor of Qods city, Leila Vaseghi, was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency as saying no explosion had occurred, but that there was a power outage that lasted about five minutes.</p>.<p>The head of the fire department in Qods city denied receiving any reports of an incident or explosion in the past 24 hours, IRIB reported.</p>.<p>It was not immediately clear if the reported incident had taken place in Qods or in a different area of western Tehran, and residents contacted by Reuters in other parts of the city said they had heard no explosion.</p>.<p>There have been several explosions around Iranian military, nuclear and industrial facilities since late June.</p>