The story: The collapse of multiple buildings and a separate gas-related explosion at another structure in southern Tehran have claimed at least six lives, triggering public outrage. The incidents in the Iranian capital have highlighted disregard for safety standards, unregulated construction, and harm caused by the "construction mafia."

The coverage: Five buildings crumbled in the south of Tehran on Aug. 6 as the planned demolition of an unsafe structure went wrong.

• Several police officers and city workers were caught beneath the debris, with at least five people losing their lives. Two of the causalities were police officers.
  
  
• Head of Tehran City Council Mehdi Chamran, who was re-elected to his position on Aug. 8, said the disaster occurred as a result of an...