{"id":260032,"date":"2022-06-13T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=260032"},"modified":"2023-02-05T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T08:51:28","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-june-13-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-june-13-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 June 13, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance held a rally in Toronto, Ontario State, Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h2>\n

UPDATE: 9:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Accident in Sodium Carbonate Factory in Central Iran Leaves Several Injured, Official Sources<\/h3>\n

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This evening, according to state news agencies<\/a>, at the Firoozabad sodium carbonate plant, leakage of an ammonia tank injured six people who were all taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

Local sources have reported the number of casualties up to 112 injuries.<\/p>\n

On Monday, June 13, around 5 PM local time, following the leak of one of the ammonia tanks of the sodium carbonate factory in Firoozabad, in the central Fars province, officials claimed that medical and fire department teams were sent to the scene to help, extinguish the fire and contain the leakage.<\/p>\n

According to the head of the provincial Emergency Center, all medical centers and hospitals in the province have been put on high alert.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the news about why the main roads to the area have been blocked, the director-general of the Crisis Management Task Force, Khalil Abdollahi, told ISNA: “The firefighting operation has been carried out, but we are waiting for the neutralization of the gas that was released into the air so that the traffic will return to its original state in the previous direction.”<\/p>\n

In light of the unprecedented socio-economic crises throughout the country, state officials are terrified that every accident can inflame public grievances and turn into nationwide unrest.<\/p>\n

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Another Building Collapse on the Horizon in Iran<\/h3>\n

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According to the state-run ISNA<\/a> news agency, the residents of the Edalat 2 building, which is a subset of the Abuzar Hospital in the 300th district of Ahvaz in the southern Khuzestan province have been evacuating their homes for several days and in temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, they are living on the streets, in fear of a repeat of the Abadan Metropol disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The infrastructure of this building was planned for six floors, but when the construction started, two more floors were added to the building. Most of the pillars of this building are worn out and cracks have been spotted. Its rebars are rotten and frequently fall on the ground.\u00a0The residents of this building have been warning state and local officials about the poor state of its structure but to no avail.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 1:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Calls of Solidarity with Protests in Iran Across Europe and Canada<\/h3>\n

Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance held rallies in the Hague, Gothenburg, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Luxembourg to express their support for the uprisings in Iran while condemning the clerical dictatorship for its repression and crimes against the Iranian people. The demonstrators called for the expulsion of the regime’s intelligence agents from European countries and demanded the closure of the regime’s embassies that have become centers of spying and espionage against Iranian asylum seekers as well as European citizens.<\/p>\n

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