An engineer died and another employee was injured after an accident on Wednesday in a research center at the Parchin military site affiliated with Iran’s Defence Ministry, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday.
Fars news said investigations into the cause of the accident were under way.
Situated 60km (37 miles) southeast of Tehran, Parchin is a sensitive military site housing several industrial and research units, where Western security services believe Iran carried out tests related to nuclear bomb detonations more than a decade ago.
In 2015, Tehran allowed the U.N. nuclear watchdog to take environmental samples at the military site to make an assessment of “possible military dimensions” of Iran’s nuclear program….