The ten-story Metropol twin towers in Abadan, southwest Iran, suffered a major disaster on Monday, May 23, as a large portion of one of the buildings collapsed, leaving dozens killed, injured, or missing.
The ad posted by the holding company that built this building boasted: “A hardened concrete structure that is built earthquake-proof!” This very tower, however, has already destroyed the lives of many long before any earthquake.
The question is why does a newly constructed building collapse in the 21st century?
The issue becomes even more disturbing as we learn that “from months ago there were reports of the building’s main column sinking and the ceilings of various floors sagging,” according to a Tuesday report posted on the state-run Khabar Online website. However, the same report says “the [Abadan] municipality’s failure to follow up on construction violations” led to Monday’s catastrophe.
Back in January 2017 the Plasco building in Tehran also collapsed due to poor construction practices. There have also been many reports of walls in schools and other old buildings crumbling in cities and towns across the country.
However, whereas the Plasco building had been standing for more than five decades, the Metropol tower was newly built. Therefore, the root of this disaster lies directly in corrupt entities in the mullahs’ regime who are busy plundering public funds and resources and filling their own pockets at the people’s expense. This is also seen in Iran’s auto industry which produces extremely unsafe vehicles that leave tens of thousands of people die every year.
These corrupt entities, led by people linked directly to the regime or within regime officials’ close circles, have established a firm grip over Iran’s economy, industry, and trade apparatus.
Following the ceasefire that brought an end to the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, former regime Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini and his successor, Ali Khamenei, has been busy involving the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in the country’s economy, meaning plundering the Iranian people’s God-given resources and riches. From 1988 to this day the IRGC has become the largest holding company and Khamenei’s personal mafia, establishing firm control over all of Iran’s economy and industries, including the road and construction sector.
Back in 1992, a holding was founded under the name of Hossein Abdolbaghi, who was in connection with the IRGC and began working on various construction projects. Out of nowhere, this newly established company became a massive holding firm with “300 permanent employees and hundreds of contract workers,” according to the holding’s documents.
A report posted on the state-run Fidous website on August 3, 2020, reads: “The formula behind Abdolbaghi becoming rich is smart management and establishing relations” with state entities, “along with rent opportunities” and “forming ties with political and administrative figures” in the regime.
May 24 – #Abadan, southwest #Iran
Regime authorities are failing to take adequate measures after yesterday's Metropol building collapse.
Official reports indicate 10 dead and 32 injured.
Dozens may still be under the rubble.pic.twitter.com/9NLfP6INBA— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 24, 2022
As a result, this newly launched holding suddenly became very rich and the IRGC’s Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters, the regime’s Free Trade Organization, the Khuzestan province governor’s office, and Abadan municipality all provided real estate confiscated from ordinary people to Abdolbaghi and his holding company:
-The land estate of Abadan prison, several thousand square meters, is considered one of the city’s best areas near a district named Ahmad Abad;
-The land associated with a 50-bed hospital, several thousand square meters;
-The land adjacent to the city’s “Nakhl Hotel” is a highly recreational area, several thousand square meters;
-The land associated with a ladies’ market, several thousand square meters; and
-The land is associated with a city Electricity Department site in downtown Abadan.
While Abdolbaghi and his holding company were taking control over real estate from the already deprived people in the cities of Abadan and Khorramshahr with the support of the IRGC’s military, political, and economic influence, Abdolbaghi was literally writing a book titled: “How I turned the ruins of Abadan and Khorramshahr into my own personal wealth”!
May 23 – #Abadan, southwest #Iran
"Callous officials!" angry locals were seen chanting.
Regime officials have dispatched anti-riot units to the city to prevent any possible anti-regime protests following today's collapse of the Metropol building.pic.twitter.com/PWYcQrI5Tp— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 23, 2022
It becomes all the more interesting with numerous reports on Tuesday wired by the regime’s various news agencies claiming Abdolbaghi’s dead body has been found in Metropol’s rubbles. This comes after yesterday’s reports of the Khuzestan province prosecutor filing documents for his arrest.
This is merely one example of the massive mafia in Iran.
linked directly to Khamenei and the IRGC that has established full control over all of Iran’s economy and different industries to further plunder the Iranian people.
Tens of millions of Iranians are living in poverty and barely have food, let alone medical care and other basic services. All the while the country is being destroyed from the ground up, and disasters one after another are mushrooming across Iran.
This is the very root of the Iranian people’s miseries for the past 43 years. A root that must and will be uprooted.
