IRAN’S EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS SUFFER AS GOVERNMENT SPENDS BILLIONS ON TERRORISM Created: 25 November 2017 Extremism earthquake in western Iran By: Heshmat Alavi -24 November 2017- They say a news event has a three-day lifespan. The regime in Tehran is counting on such a theory to have the international community move on after the recent earthquake that shook western Iran. Each passing day further reveals the scope of this vast catastrophe. “More than 1,000 people have lost their lives,” Iranian MP Ahmad Safari said to the official ILNA news agency 72 hours after the quake. “I went to a village where they said they pulled 20 corpses from under the rubble. They were not even counted in the death toll. 70 people died just in one alley of the town of Sarpol-e Zahab. Another 250 were killed in the Mehr housing complex.”