Metrople, a vast sorrow in Iran

Seventy-seven people returned alive from the hellish metropolis, and one of them is still struggling for survival on a hospital bed. However, forty-three people were buried under the ruins of the corruption that destroyed Rombid and Amiriyeh Street. Amiriyeh, once a vibrant and bustling street in Abadan, is now filled with the sounds of cries and wails. The bloodshed on its walls, and the blood spilled in the Rex Cinema, have not only affected this city, but have also shrouded all of Iran in mourning since the second of Khordad. On hot, windless days, the people of Abadan gather around the fresh corpses that are pulled out from under the rubble, wrap them in shrouds, and bury them in the Paradise Reza Cemetery. As a sign of respect, they cover the graves with flowers and the grieving and angry people, who are being pushed around by anti-riot vehicles instead of rescue teams, join hands

The dust was in the air and it seemed like Abadan was witnessing its doomsday. A father pulled his child out from under the rubble and ran through the dust. He passed by women and men in shock and heard the voice of a girl crying, asking “Is daddy here?” After the people of Abadan realized that the terrifying sound was not coming from the refinery, they rushed to Amiriyeh Street and from the moment the Metropole collapsed, whispers spread about the presence of at least eighty men, women, and children under the rubble. The destruction was so severe that even the shops in front of the Metropole tower were damaged. The collapse of the Metropole is the end of the corruption story in Abadan. Before this story came to an end, numerous letters were sent by the Engineering Organization regarding the violations of the Abdolbaghi Holding, the builder of the Metropole, to the municipality, the Arvand Free Zone Organization, the prosecutor

The pulse of Abadan is in the hands of a liar.

The city is in limbo and people are drowning in a sea of hope and despair as the mobile networks of Hamrahe Aval and Irancell are cut off and home internet is said to have turned into “diesel”; the same thing that happened in November 2019 is happening again, this time in Abadan. Although twenty days have passed since the collapse of the Metropol, it is still not clear exactly how many people were under the rubble; a statistic that would not have been difficult to obtain. It was enough for officials to announce that families whose loved ones were in the vicinity of the Metropol and have not returned should come forward and declare their names, but not only did they not do that, they also left people’s questions unanswered, did not allow them to help, and even expelled Adnan Matoori, who was finding buried survivors with his wife and dogs, on the pretext that the dogs were unregistered. According to those who were at the scene of the

The interview of the head of the national broadcasting company can be a sign of a larger event that they tried to hide from the people’s eyes, but the result is that the disunity among different branches of the government is easily observable. The government’s solution to conceal this issue is to be unresponsive and ignore the people. The celebration of “Commander’s Greetings” only three days after the collapse of the metro in Abadan is a clear symbol of this disregard and the intense anger of the people overflowed, leading to the chant “Tehran is a wedding, Abadan is a bloodbath” in Abadan. It took almost a week for them to finally send a message of condolences to Abadan, and the president, who was supposed to be “fast, urgent and revolutionary,” arrived at the scene eleven days after the tragedy. The delay in all actions of the government is evident; a delay that could be caused by the fragmentation of the commanders, which makes decision

Corruption is backwardness, devastation for the people.

On those early days, Hassan Norouzi, the second deputy of the Legal and Judicial Commission of the Parliament, announced that in the matter of Metropl, in addition to the responsible engineers and civil officials, even if the prosecutor as the public plaintiff became aware of these violations or the deputy of the civil governorate became aware of the violation and did not take any action, they are somehow responsible. This is while the Abadan Engineering Organization had announced that in the past year, numerous letters were sent regarding the violations committed by all institutions, including the prosecutor’s office, all of which remained unanswered. Finally, it was announced that fourteen people have been arrested in connection with the violations that led to the collapse of Metropl, among them the names of three mayors, the mayor of District 1 of Abadan, building inspectors, and individuals from the Engineering Organization can be seen, but the name of the governor is not among them. Instead of answering for their negligence towards the violations, he

In the name of development, towards the fulfillment of rents.

These days, the south of the country has neither water nor air for its people. The people say that after the war, their cities have been filled with sorrow. It was in July of last year when the Arabic-speaking voice of a woman was heard from Susangard, crying out: “You who did not take your water, you who did not take your land? Why are you shooting at the Salamieh protests?” The recent protests clearly show the class divide and the spread of poverty in different cities, and the suppression of protesters is the only solution that is always used. On the other hand, the destruction of the southern cities after the war with Iraq led to corruption in the years following the war, under the guise of development. Ahvaz has always been an industrial city, unlike Khorramshahr, which was a commercial city. This city has been known throughout history as the most important labor center among the cities of the south, but the engine of development in