Inauguration of the Plasco building

The building was the tallest building when it was constructed, and it was considered an iconic landmark of the skyline. The Plasco building collapsed on January 19, 2017, during a fire. His death was the first post-revolution execution of a Jew or a leading businessman, and it contributed to the departure of more than three-quarters of the country’s 80,000 Jews. Habib Elghanian was born on April 5, 1912, in the Udlajan section of Tehran, to a father who was a tailor and a mother who was a grocer’s daughter. One of eight children, he attended the Alliance Israelite Universelle School until he was 15, when he began working at a hotel owned by an uncle.