Mismanagement and corruption cause multiple accidents in Iran every year.  “Steel-Plant Fire in Iran Is Latest in Spate of Incidents,” Golnar Motevalli, Bloomberg, June 6, 2021.  “A blaze broke out at a steel factory in Iran’s southern Kerman province Sunday morning, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said, the country’s fifth reported infrastructure fire in little more than two weeks. … Iran has suffered a flurry of incidents in recent days. An oil pipeline caught fire in the southwest of the country on Thursday, a day after a blaze engulfed a refinery in southern Tehran. A week earlier, a worker was killed when an oxygen pipeline exploded at a petrochemical plant in Assalouyeh, and on May 22, three people were injured in a fire at a unit of the Abadan refinery in southwest Iran.”

27 and counting.  But the big news is that Israel’s F-35s “take part in exercise alongside Italian, US, UK pilots in their largest, farthest-away drill yet” explicitly to prepare for Iran’s acts.  “In first, Israeli F-35s train in Italy — with Iran in their sights,” Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel, June 6, 2021.

“Iran’s Presidential Race: Who is Ultra-conservative Favourite Ebrahim Raisi,” France 24, June 6, 2021.

This could be a regular crime story, but it rings a little unusual—is it a wider example of organized crime from Iran?  “Three Iran nationals nabbed for attention diversion cases in Hyderabad,” New Indian Express, June 6, 2021.

“Iran reaches new economic turning point,” John Bambridge, Middle East Business Intelligence, June 6, 2021.

“Fire and Explosion Hit Iran Steel Mill, Third Such Incident in Five Days,” Iran International, June 6, 2021.