Iranian leaders call for answers after port explosion

Containers burn after the massive explosion (Meysam Mirzadeh/Tasnim News/AP)

Iran’s president and supreme leader have told officials they must find out why an explosion rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports, killing 40 people.

Saturday’s blast at the Shahid Rajaei port outside of Bandar Abbas, in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province, injured about 1,000 others.