A 10-story commercial building collapsed killing several people in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran, Monday, May 23, 2022.
RESCUERS dug through debris of a building collapse in south-western Iran that killed at least 11 people today as authorities arrested the city’s mayor in a widening probe of the disaster.
The collapse on Monday of an under-construction 10-storey tower at the Metropol Building exposed its cement blocks and steel beams while also underscoring an ongoing crisis in Iranian construction projects that has seen other disasters in the earthquake-prone nation.
Footage of the collapse showed thick dust rise over Abadan, a crucial oil-producing city in Khuzestan province, near Iran’s border with Iraq.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
