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.
