In early 2009 another SA-15 class ship , the '' Monchegorsk '' , became the centre of an international incident involving Iran , Egypt , Russia , the United States , Israel , the Palestinian territories and Cyprus . American naval ships of the Combined Task Force 151 alerted the Egyptian officials after the ship left an Iranian port and headed for the Suez Canal . The ship was forced into an Egyptian port and munitions , believed to be headed to the Gaza Strip , were found hidden in the cargo . However , the officials had no evidence that this was in violation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1747 , which prohibits Iran from exporting weapons , and the ship was released . After leaving the Canal '' Monchegorsk '' , flying a Cypriot flag , was boarded and escorted to the Port of Limassol . This resulted in a diplomatic struggle in which Israel and the US maintained that the shipment was in violation of the UN resolution , Israel claimed that the weapons were heading for the Palestinian organizations in the Gaza strip and Iran denied everything . The Cypriot officials made a decision to unload the suspicious cargo of 98 containers from the ship and keep it in Cyprus . The ship was sold for scrap shortly after the incident . On 11 July 2011 , more than two years later , the confiscated containers , stored in the open under allegedly inappropriate conditions at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base near Mari , exploded , leaving 12 people dead and 62 injured . The explosion created a crater and caused widespread damage to the naval base and the nearby power station of Vasilikos
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Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion
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