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Iran disperses crowd angry over building collapse killing 29

In this photo released on Saturday, May 28, 2022 by website of the Iranian Army, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, left, and Commander of the Army Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi visit an underground drone base tunnel of the Army in the heart of the country's western Zagros Mountains. Iranian state television's report said Saturday, May 29, the tunnel was some 100 meters (330 feet) underground and was home to the Kaman-22 and Fotros drones, both capable of carrying cruise missiles. (Iranian Army via AP) In this photo released on Saturday, May 28, 2022 by website of the Iranian Army, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, left, and Commander of the Army Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi visit an underground drone base tunnel of the Army in the heart of the country's western Zagros Mountains. Iranian state television's report said Saturday, May 29 the tunnel was some 100 meters (330 feet) underground and was home to the Kaman-22 and Fotros drones, both capable of carrying cruise missiles. (Iranian Army via AP) In this photo released on Saturday, May 28, 2022 by website of the Iranian Army, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, left, and Commander of the Army Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi talk while visiting an underground drone base tunnel of the Army in the heart of the country's western Zagros Mountains. Iranian state television's report said Saturday, May 29, the tunnel was some 100 meters (330 feet) underground and was home to the Kaman-22 and Fotros drones, both capable of carrying cruise missiles. (Iranian Army via AP) In this photo released on Saturday, May 28, 2022 by website of the Iranian Army, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, right, and Commander of the Army Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi talk while visiting an underground drone base tunnel of the Army in the heart of the country's western Zagros Mountains. Iranian state television's report said Saturday, May 29, the tunnel was some 100 meters (330 feet) underground and was home to the Kaman-22 and Fotros drones, both capable of carrying cruise missiles. (Iranian Army via AP) In this photo released Saturday, May 28, 2022 by website of the Iranian Army, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, left, and Commander of the Army Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi talk while visiting an underground drone base tunnel of the Army in the heart of the country's western Zagros Mountains. Iranian state television's report said Saturday, May 29, the tunnel was some 100 meters (330 feet) underground and was home to the Kaman-22 and Fotros drones, both capable of carrying cruise missiles. (Iranian Army via AP) In this photo released on Saturday, May 28, 2022 by website of the Iranian Army, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, left, and Commander of the Army Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi talk while visiting an underground drone base tunnel of the Army in the heart of the country's western Zagros Mountains. Iranian state television's report said Saturday, the tunnel was some 100 meters (330 feet) underground and was home to the Kaman-22 and Fotros drones, both capable of carrying cruise missiles. (Iranian Army via AP) This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Metropol Building site, center, in Abadan, Iran, April 20, 2022. Iranian riot police fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse an angry crowd of hundreds of people near the site of the Metropol building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan, online video analyzed Saturday, May 28, 2022, showed. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Metropol Building collapse site, center, in Abadan, Iran, Thursday, May 26, 2022. Iranian riot police fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse an angry crowd of hundreds of people near the site of the building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan, online video analyzed Saturday, May 28, 2022, showed. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) People mourn next to the flag draped coffin of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei who was killed on Sunday, in his funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Iran's hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi vowed revenge on Monday over the killing of Sayyad Khodaei who was shot at his car by two assailants outside his home in Tehran, a still-mysterious attack on the country's powerful paramilitary force. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) In this photo released by official website of the office of Iranian Senior Vice-President, on Friday, May 27, 2022, Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber, second right, visits the site of a tower at under construction 10-story Metropol Building which collapsed on Monday, in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran. Rescue teams at the site of the tower pulled five more bodies from the rubble on Friday, bringing the death toll in the disaster to 24. (Iranian Senior Vice-President Office via AP)