Sodium perchlorate is used to produce ammonium perchlorate, a key ingredient to make solid fuel for ballistic missiles. The Treasury identified one individual from an Iranian firm as being linked ...

“Sodium perchlorate, on its own, to my knowledge, is not explosive and certainly doesn't detonate like that,” he says. Sella initially thought the material might have been ammonium nitrate ...

According to The Wall Street Journal, Tehran has arranged for a shipment that includes ammonium perchlorate—used in solid-fuel ballistic missiles—which could enable the production of up to 800 ...

It is part of a shipment of ammonium perchlorate from China by two vessels to Iran, first reported in January by the Financial Times. The chemical used to make solid propellant for rockets was ...

Iranian officials have denied the substances involved in the blast were imported from Communist China, though ammonium perchlorate was shipped to the port from China in January and a second missile ...

Newsweek reported that intelligence sources had said they believed Iran is attempting to import 1,000 metric tons of sodium perchlorate, which if converted into ammonium perchlorate, could support ...

The blast, which hit on Saturday, has been attributed to a cargo of ammonium perchlorate, a chemical employed in the manufacture of missile propellant. The cargo was received in March and formed ...

While Iran's military sought to deny the delivery of ammonium perchlorate from China, new videos emerged showing an apocalyptic scene at the still-smoldering port. A crater that appeared meters ...