Valiollah Hayati, Deputy Governor of Iran's Khuzestan Province, stated via Iranian state media that several explosion sounds previously reported in the Iranian port city of Mahshahr were caused by two exploded power grid transformers, rather than an external attack. The West Asia News Agency (WANA) reported that the incident comes amid heightened security tensions in southern Iran, accompanied by power outages in parts of the Bandar Mahshahr industrial zone in Khuzestan Province.