Iranian authorities arrested a local journalist at a ceremony for the victims of a building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan, an international press watchdog reported on Wednesday as the death toll from the disaster rose to 37.
In Iran today people rummage through dustbins searching for scraps of food. Eighty million Iranians have seen their daily income drop below the international extreme poverty line of $2 per
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) The death toll in a catastrophic collapse of a tower in southwestern Iran rose to 37 on Wednesday, officials said, as emergency workers pulled another body from the rubble over a week after the disaster that has prompted an outpouring of outrage and grief in the country.