The land of Iran is no longer peaceful.

Soheila. Sh. FCNN News Agency: This is Iran. Calm down, my land. I know you are fed up with people and want to upset the earth and time. Cruelty, crime, and injustice have darkened the sky and made you restless inside, but know that the unkindness of humans who have lost God among metal bars and golden shrines will end. So calm down. You see that your restlessness burns both wet and dry. It is painful, O earth, that in your restlessness, unknowingly and unwillingly, you sacrifice the poor and the oppressed.

We are talking about the earth of Kermanshah, which shook on Sunday night this week and brought grief to a large number of our compatriots. The death toll has now reached more than 400 people and the injured are more than 2,000.

12,000 rural and urban residential units have been completely destroyed, and 15,000 units are no longer habitable. Of course, most villages no longer have any security due to the complete destruction. Even the army barracks and shelters of soldiers stationed on the border lack the necessary strength, and many have been killed.

People are homeless and displaced. They have neither bread nor water to eat, nor a blanket to keep warm. There is no safe place to take shelter at night. Mourners are beating their heads and faces and are unwilling to leave the rubble. A few relief forces have asked people to evacuate the area around the collapsed houses so that the operation can be carried out quickly. However, the limited relief facilities and the lack of necessary management do not give people enough confidence. Their loved ones may still be under the rubble, waiting for help in their last breaths.

A number of those killed and injured in Sar-e-Pul-e-Zahab are residents of Mehr housing projects. They received the keys to these units two years ago, eager to become homeowners, and trusted the government officials in charge of the Mehr housing project.

But today, when more than 80 percent of these newly built houses have been damaged and victims have been killed, the same officials say without any hesitation that the Mehr housing complex in Sar-e-Pul-e-Zahab was located on a fault line.

This is Iran, and those who were lured by the government's promise of cheap housing have had their houses destroyed because the Islamic Republic regime did not recognize their rights. Due to their low income, they were condemned to live in houses that did not meet the minimum standards of land location and construction.

Rest in peace, my land. All the grieving families of Kermanshah are grateful to God today. If the earth had shaken while schools were open, perhaps no children and teenagers would have reached home. Because they were condemned to learn in schools that are now between 20 and 100 percent destroyed. They are also grateful that the earth did not shake in the middle of the night. Because in the early hours of the night, many people had not yet returned home from work.

This is Iran. A land where 80 percent of its cities face a serious earthquake risk and people experience earthquakes of more than 7 on the Richter scale every 10 years. Every time, the victims of earthquakes are those who do not have safe shelter and whose homes do not have even the minimum safety. Government officials have no plans and continue to give slogans.

In the most cautious statistics they have recently announced, the authorities of the Islamic Republic consider more than 30 percent of the country's schools vulnerable to earthquakes. That is, about 10,000 classrooms. In other words, about four and a half million Iranian children and adolescents sit and study under unsafe roofs. To address this concern, 6 trillion tomans of credit is needed, which the regime does not have the power to provide.

More than a third of our country's population lives in a dilapidated urban fabric that has no security against an earthquake of more than 5 on the Richter scale.

The situation is not very favorable for the country's more than 20 million rural population, as only 42 percent of rural houses have been earthquake-resistant, and the rest have been abandoned due to the villagers' inability to repay bank loans or provide collateral.

This is Iran, and the authorities of the Islamic Republic do not have the opportunity or the ability to protect the lives of the people of this land from earthquakes. Because they have to provide funds for Hezbollah in Lebanon and build roads, houses, schools, and parks in that country. The holy shrines of Iraq must also be constantly renovated and have gilded shrines. Maintaining power in the hands of people like Assad in Syria also requires large funds that the authorities of the Islamic Republic must provide.

One of the burdens that weighs heavily on these officials is the budget for the reconstruction of the holy shrines in Iraq, for which they have pledged to allocate an amount equivalent to 3 trillion Tomans for this purpose over the next 6 years. This is half of the budget needed to retrofit all of our country's dilapidated classrooms.

Another item is the funding of Hezbollah in Lebanon, which, according to a French newspaper, is between $200 and $500 million annually.

This is Iran, and the people continue to tremble in a land that has torn itself apart to swallow oppression.