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5 Apr 2026, 23:43

Citizens from the west of #Tehran are reporting a continuous concerning sound. Some messages:

  • The continuous loud sound is not related to a fighter jet... It sounds like a large air or gas tank bursting, with air escaping from it... The sound has been present for half an hour throughout the city... The source of the sound is towards the west of Tehran.

  • About half an hour ago, a very terrifying sound came from the west of Tehran on Azadi Street, followed by a strange sound that is still ongoing. There’s a smell like gas or sulfur. Neighbors say the main gas line has been hit and everyone is leaving.

  • On Tuesday, April 17, at 3:05 AM in Salasbil, Tehran, we are still hearing the sound of a fighter jet. It has gone on for so long that I’m starting to doubt it might be the sound of a gas line that has burst.

  • This sound has been going on for twenty minutes! In central Tehran, Vahid, please if anyone has said anything, let us know, we are dying from stress.

Tuesday, April 17
Vahid

Vahid, why isn’t this sound stopping? It usually lasts 5 to 10 minutes, but now it’s been half an hour and it’s continuous.

Even if it’s the main gas line, there’s no explosion risk; the exit pressure is so high that the flame starts at least 30 meters above the pipe.

I’m at Jihoun intersection with Hashemi. This sound has been coming since 2:40. It’s now 3:18. It seems like a fighter jet because the sound is getting closer and farther away.

Tehran. Azadi. Jihoun. After the sound of a huge explosion, the continuous sound of a fighter jet. It’s been half an hour now. The sound is getting closer and farther away. The sound is getting closer, and the glass is shaking a bit.

Hello, dear Vahid. At 2:40 in Tehran, near the Sattar Khan Bridge heading south, there were several explosions, and smoke came up from the Yadgar Bridge, but that was on the other side of the bridge towards Azadi and Tarasht; I don’t know where it was. There’s no fighter jet above us now, but that sound is still strange, plus the wind and storm are strong, but we don’t smell gas or any other odor coming our way, at least not for now.

"From the direction of Salasbil (Rudaki-Adarbayjan-Azadi) in Tehran, a terrifying continuous sound is coming. At first, I thought it was a fighter jet. But I think it’s something else. The source of the sound is probably less than a kilometer away. This sound has been going on for more than half an hour. I think it started after an explosion."

I’m on Azadi Street; the sound has increased significantly and is continuous.

What is this sound that has been coming since 2:40? It’s a continuous sound and doesn’t resemble a fighter jet. It’s unprecedented for a jet to be in the sky for this long. It keeps getting closer and farther away.

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Suddenly, the sound stopped very strangely.

3:25, the sound stopped.

The sound has completely stopped. Just now. 03:25.

Vahid, the sound stopped; it seems they closed the valve 😄

The sound suddenly stopped at 3:25. If it were a fighter jet, it wouldn’t stop like this all of a sudden.

At 3:25, the sound finally stopped. It had been continuous since 2:40, the sound from Jihoun.

Sattar Khan, Tehran, 3:25, the sound that was coming just now stopped as if someone pressed the off button.

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