Iran's Rouhani exploits a coal mine explosion for electioneering, gets pelted

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/irans_rouhani_exploits_a_coal_mine_explosion_for_electioneering_gets_pelted.html

A major coal mine explosion struck northern Iran last Thursday, killing at least 35 miners and injuring at least 25 others, all of whom were hospitalized over inhaling the gas during rescue efforts after the blast.  The blast occurred in the Zemestanyurt mine, about 14 kilometers outside the town of Azadshahr.

"Financial problems resulted in the lack of safety precautions in the coal mine.  The workers themselves are reduced to negotiating for their own demands," said Ramezan Bahrami, head of the regime's Mining & Industry House in Golestan Province, in an interview with the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards Quds Force (IRGC).  Lacks of safety standards and inadequate emergency services in mining areas contributed to these high fatalities. 

This is not the first disaster to strike Iran's mining industry.  In 2013, 11 workers were killed in two separate mining incidents.  In 2009, 20 workers were killed in several other incidents.