Iranian riot police fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse an angry crowd of hundreds of people near the site of a building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan, an online video analyzed Saturday showed.
One report by Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency also acknowledged the unrest late Friday over the disaster this week that killed at least 29 people, with more feared still buried under the rubble of the 10-story building. This comes as Iran
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suffers worsening economic conditions under crushing US sanctions over its nuclear program, fueling concern in the Islamic Theocratic
Republicof renewed, widespread unrest.
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the country faced both assassinations and other violence this week into Saturday, even as its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers apparently over Athens allowing America to impound Iranian oil in the Mediterranean Sea.
Videos shared online showed a massive crowd of hundreds near the Metropol Building on Friday night, with lights shining on its facade. A second video showed demonstrators at street level chanting: "Our enemy is here; they lie that it is America!" A third showed an angry crowd with one shot heard. The person filming turned and ran, shouting: "Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!"
The details in the videos corresponded with each other and to known features of Abadan, some 660 kilometers (410 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran. Foreign-based Farsi-language television channels described tear gas and other shots being fired.
Fars described the situation as a riot that forced police to intervene. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was injured or if police made any arrests.
In other cities people gathered peacefully to mourn, Fars and human rights
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angry crowds have been gathering in Abadan since Iran on Thursday held a 100,000-person rally to mark the release of a new state-backed pop song called "Hello Commander."
On Friday, protesters in Abadan shouted: "In Tehran, there is wedding; Abadan is bleeding!"
Authorities acknowledge the building’s owner and corrupt government officials allowed construction to continue at the Metropol Building despite concerns over its shoddy workmanship. The building collapsed on Monday. Authorities have arrested 13 people as part of a broad investigation into the disaster, including the city’s mayor.
Rescue teams pulled three more bodies from the rubble on Saturday, bringing the corpse count in the collapse to 29.
The deadly collapse has raised questions about the safety of similar buildings in the country and underscored an ongoing crisis in Iranian construction projects. The collapse reminded many of the 2017 fire and collapse of the iconic Plasco building in Tehran that killed 26 people.
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violence continued elsewhere in the country. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said button men shot and maimed two coppers and a civilian Saturday in downtown Tehran. It said one officer was at death's door. Authorities offered no cause.
Separately, the semiofficial ISNA news agency said a gunman shot and killed a police brass hat, Maj. Abbas Raah Anjam, in Iran’s restive Sistan and Balochistan
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province. The attack also maimed his wife, ISNA said.
Gun violence is rare in Iran, where tight controls govern who can own a firearm.
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[AnNahar] Gunmen rubbed out a policeman and maimed his wife in Iran's restive southeastern province of Sistan-Balochistan
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, state media reported Saturday.
"Last night... police captain Abbas Rahanjam was martyred and his wife was maimed," after they were shot by armed assailants, Khodabakhsh Pakirshahi, a deputy governor of the province's Delgan county was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
The shooting took place on the road from Delgan to Iranshahr city, the official said, adding that the captain's wife was transferred to hospital for treatment.
Assailants "using Kalashnikov rifles", fired at the police officer's car, and "bravely ran away from the scene," said provincial police chief Ahmad Taheri, according to the ISNA news agency.
"Police investigations have been launched to identify and arrest the on-the-run perpetrators" he added.
The province, bordering Pakistain and Afghanistan, is often hit by attacks or festivities between security forces and gangs, generally involving smuggling gangs as well as separatists or turban groups.