A fire has been reported in Bahrain's Ma'ameer region, with Iranian sources pointing to a blaze at the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). Firefighting teams are currently responding to the incident.
Iranian news channels are reporting a significant fire at an industrial site in Bahrain. According to حامیان پزشکیان (Supporters of Pezeshkian), a channel aligned with the Iranian president's political faction, news sources report a fire breaking out at the Bahrain Petroleum Company, known as "BAPCO". This initial report was broadly circulated and also covered by mainstream Iranian news outlets آخرین خبر (Akharin Khabar) and خراسان آنلاین (Khorasan Online).
Citing the Bahraini news agency, the Iranian political channel later noted that the fire occurred at a facility in the "Ma'ameer" area, adding that "firefighting teams are extinguishing the fire in this facility."
The Iranian coverage notably emphasizes the operational importance of the targeted site. The channel specifically framed Ma'ameer as an "industrial and strategic area" situated a short distance from the Bahrain Petroleum Company, highlighting the strategic and economic vulnerabilities of energy infrastructure in the neighboring Gulf state.
There is a slight internal contradiction in the primary source channel's timeline: one message definitively places the fire at the BAPCO oil company, while a subsequent message states it occurred at a facility in Ma'ameer, clarifying that this area is merely 'a short distance from' the oil company. The translation preserves the Iranian channels' deliberate framing of the site as 'strategic'.