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- Fire at Iran's largest oil refinery kills 1 in the country's southwest</p>
<p>July 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM</p>
<p>This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. (AP Photo) ()</p>
<p>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A fire at Iran's oldest and largest refinery in the southwest killed one person, state media reported Sunday.</p>
<p>A leaky pump in an under-repair unit at Abadan refinery caused the fire on Saturday, killing a worker, according to the state-owned IRAN newspaper. Firefighters put out the blaze in two hours and operations remained unaffected, the report said.</p>
<p>Iran's deputy parliament speaker, Ali Nikzad, confirmed Sunday that some workers were also injured, media outlets said.</p>
<p>Abadan oil refinery, some 670 kilometers (nearly 416 miles) from the capital Tehran, began its operation in 1912. It is the biggest in the Islamic Republic, producing about 25% of the country's fuel with more than 5,200,000 barrels of oil refined daily.</p>
<p>Several fires have broken out across Iran over the past week at residential and commercial buildings, with authorities saying gas leaks and electrical short-circuiting were to blame.</p>
<p>Iran is one of the world's major producers of oil, though sanctions by Western countries have limited its sales.</p>
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