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Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof during a photocall for the film 'Lerd' at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, May 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)
February 13, 2023, 12:10 pm
Iran releases award-winning filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof after 6 months
Director was detained for criticizing the government’s crackdown on protests in the southwestern city of Abadan over a deadly building collapse
By AP
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof during a photocall for the film 'Lerd' at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, May 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)
January 13, 2023, 12:32 am
Iran frees filmmaker arrested during protests over deadly building collapse
Lawyer for award-winning Mohammad Rasoulof, who was accused of encouraging last year’s demonstrations, says his client was released for two weeks due to health concerns
By AFP
Illustrative: A dark plume of smoke rises up from a main oil refinery south of Tehran, Iran, June 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
September 2, 2022, 12:48 pm
Explosion rocks key oil refinery in southwest Iran
State media says no casualties in blast at Abadan facility that ‘supplies 25 percent of the country’s fuel needs’: Israel has been blamed for previous industrial accidents
By AFP
Iranians gather at the site where a ten-storey building collapsed as rescue operations continue in the southwestern city of Abadan on May 24, 2022. (TASNIM NEWS/AFP)
August 31, 2022, 6:34 pm
Iran imprisons 21 over May building collapse that killed 43
Current and former mayors of southwest city of Abadan arrested along with other municipal officials over disaster that prompted widespread anti-corruption protests
By AFP
Iranians gather at the site where a ten-storey building collapsed as rescue operations continue in the southwestern city of Abadan on May 24, 2022. (TASNIM NEWS/AFP)
July 21, 2022, 1:35 pm
Iran charges 20 over building collapse that killed 43
Judiciary says all of the defendants are already in custody, confirms that owner seen by many as responsible died in the construction site disaster
By AFP
In this photo released on May 27, 2022, ruins of the under-construction 10-story Metropol Building remain after it collapsed last week, in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran. (Iranian Senior Vice-President Office via AP)
June 6, 2022, 3:56 pm
Death toll in Iran apartment building collapse rises to 41
Still unclear how many remain unaccounted for in building that crumbled two weeks ago in southwest of country
By AP and ToI Staff
In this photo released on May 27, 2022, ruins of the under-construction 10-story Metropol Building remain after it collapsed last week, in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran. (Iranian Senior Vice-President Office via AP)
May 31, 2022, 9:56 pm
Iran disrupts local internet as demonstrators rally over deadly tower collapse
Southwestern province plunged into digital isolation as residents allege government negligence; death toll rises to 36 amid fears more people trapped in ruins
By Agencies
Iranians gather at the site where a ten-story building collapsed as rescue operations continue in the southwestern city of Abadan on May 24, 2022. (Tasnim News/AFP)
May 31, 2022, 10:18 am
Death toll in Iran apartment building collapse rises to 34
A section of the 10-story structure collapsed last week, leading to one of the country’s deadliest disasters in years; hundreds protest over the weekend
By AFP
Ruins of a tower at under construction 10-story Metropol Building after it collapsed in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran, in a photo released May 27, 2022. (Iranian Senior Vice-President Office via AP)
May 30, 2022, 12:36 pm
Iranian protesters clash with police after building collapse death toll reaches 32
Protesters in Abadan shout down government representatives; riot police crack down on demonstrators with clubs, tear gas; more victims feared buried under rubble
By Jon Gambrell and Isabel Debre
Iranian Senior Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber (second right) visits the 10-story Metropol Building which collapsed on Monday, in the city of Abadan, Iran, May 27, 2022. (Iranian Senior Vice-President Office via AP)
May 28, 2022, 7:32 pm
Iranian police violently disperse protest over building collapse that killed 29
Angry crowd chants ‘Our enemy is here; they lie that it is America’; authorities fire shots in the air, tear gas at protesters
By Jon Gambrell
Iranians gather at the site of a 10-story building that collapsed in the southwestern city of Abadan on May 24, 2022. (Tasnim News/AFP)
May 27, 2022, 12:36 pm
Hundreds protest in Iran as death toll from building collapse rises
‘Death to incompetent officials,’ demonstrators in Abadan chant after at least 24 killed in collapse of apartment tower that is being built
By AFP
Iranians gather at the site where a ten-story building collapsed in the southwestern city of Abadan on May 23, 2022. (Tasnim News/AFP)
May 23, 2022, 4:12 pm
At least four dead, 80 trapped under rubble in Iran building collapse
Investigation is underway at unfinished 10-story building on city of Abadan’s busiest street
By AFP
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