Flood inundates villages in northwest Iran
Tasnim – Heavy rainfall caused flooding in dozens of cities and villages in Iran’s northwestern province of Ardebil, forcing many families to…
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Floods cause $56m in damage to roads since March
Financial Tribune – Floods that have swept the country since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 20) have inflicted up…
Flood damage to roads, agro sectors estimated at $139m
Financial Tribune – Floods in the first week of spring have inflicted losses estimated at 8,700 billion rials ($54.37 million) on the…
Roads to 130 Iranian villages closed after floods: Minster
Press TV – Iran’s transportation minister says recent floods have closed roads to 130 villages mostly in the south of the country.…
Floods kill 11 in Iran, air rescue underway
Tasnim – Spring floods have caused damages to many urban and rural areas in several provinces of Iran, mainly in the southern…
Floodwaters inflict new losses in south and SW Iran
Financial Tribune – Heavy rains that began Monday have led to flash floods in the west and southwest of Iran, causing damage…
Flooding in Iran: World’s ninth costliest weather disaster of 2019
Financial Tribune – Severe flooding that hit Iran in March and April was the world’s ninth costliest weather disaster of 2019, according…
IRGC ground force continues helping flood-hit people in SE Iran
Tasnim – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force keeps providing flood-hit people in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan…
Defense Minister vows more aid to flood-hit people in SE Iran
Tasnim – Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said the ministry has mobilized all its facilities and equipment to help the…
IRGC chief visits flood-hit areas in southern Iran
MNA – Chief Commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Major General Salami visited the flood-hit areas in southern Iran on Sunday to…
Iran’s economy incurs heavy losses from natural disasters
Financial Tribune – Floods have inflicted losses worth nearly 90 trillion rials [$690 million] on Iran’s economy in the fiscal 2019-20. The…
Cost of Fajr festival opening ceremony to be given to flood-stricken areas
IRNA – A provincial official of Ministry of culture and Islamic Guidance in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, said on Wednesday that the cost of…
Photos: Aerial relief operation underway in Iran’s flood-hit province
Tasnim | Erfan Kouchari: Aerial relief operation is underway in Iran’s flood-hit Sistan and Balouchestan province as heave rainfall inflicted damages on…
Army assisting flood-stricken people in southeastern Iran
Tehran Times – The chief of the Army Ground Force said on Friday that certain units his command have flocked to the…
Iran’s President vows to use all capacities to rebuild flood-hit areas
Tasnim – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made assurances that his administration would use all its power and capacities to help rebuild areas…
Photos: President Rouhani visits flood-hit province of Iran
IRNA | Ahmad Moeinjam: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani traveled to the Southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan on Saturday to directly manage…
Flood damages worth $53m inflicted on Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan infrastructure
Financial Tribune – Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami says flooding has inflicted damages on roads, bridges and waterways of…
Rouhani says govt stands by flood-hit people
IRNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stated on Saturday that the government has stood by the flood-stricken people in different southeastern cities.…
IRGC equipment sent to flood-hit areas in SE Iran: Commander
Tasnim – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said the IRGC has dispatched necessary equipment to…
Leader urges Govt, NGOs to help people in Sistan-Baluchestan
IRNA – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei called on all governmental and non-governmental organizations to help flood-stricken…
Rouhani gives required directives for helping flood-hit regions
MNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged various governmental sectors of Sistan and Baluchestan to mobilize equipment for helping the flood-hit people…
Photos: Flash flood hits Iran’s Jask Port
Mizan – Abed Qassemi | Heavy rainfalls during the past two days have caused flooding on the Jask Port, southern Hormozgan Province…
Photos: Heavy floods hit Hormozgan
Tasnim | Mostafa Hamzavi: Following heavy rainfall in Hormozgan, the town of Parsian in Hormozgan province, is subjected to floods. …
Dams in Iran’s southern regions can handle intense rainfall, flooding
Financial Tribune – Storage capacity of dams in Khuzestan, Kohkilouyeh-Boyer-Ahmad and Bushehr have been “maintained at secure levels” to help control possible…
WHO assists Iran to enhance health system resilience against floods
United Nations Iran – World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) of the Islamic…
Iranian startups, entrepreneurs helping restore business in flood-hit provinces
Financial Tribune – Iranian startups, with help from tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs, have launched a campaign to help restore businesses in provinces…
2,000 residential units to be built for flood survivors
Tehran Times – The Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation and the Ministry of Health inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to construct 2,000…
Japan supports WHO aid to 160k vulnerable people affected by 2019 floods
Tehran Times – The World Health Organization (WHO) by receiving a donation from the Government of Japan intensifies its current supports with…
10,000 flood-hit classrooms to be retrofitted within 3 months
Tehran Times – Some 10,000 classrooms which have been destroyed by flood will be fully renovated and prepared by the beginning of…
Flood-hit areas in Iran exempt from gas bills
Financial Tribune – Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the government has exempted households and industrial gas subscribers in flood-hit areas from…
World nations send relief aid to Iran flood-hit people
IRNA – Eleven countries dispatched humanitarian and relief aid to the flood-stricken people of southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan two months ago,…
Flood-hit Gorgan-Incheboron railroad reopened: RAI head
MNA – The managing director the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (RAI) announced that the international railroad, connecting the northeastern Iranian Golestan…
Iran’s wheat autarky on track despite severe floods
Press TV – For the fourth year in a row, Iran’s wheat harvest is enough to make it self-sufficient in the strategic…
Charity donates home appliances, livestock to flood victims in North Khorasan
Tehran Times – Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam also known as Setad-e Ejraiy-e Farman-e Hazrat-e Emam has donated some…
Floods incurred over $241mn loss to Iran’s roads
MNA – “According to the latest estimations, the recent flash floods in Iran have incurred 35 trillion rials (about $241.3 million) of…
WFP provides 12,000 food packages for flood-hit Khuzestan
United Nations Iran – World Food Program (WFP), food-assistance branch of the United Nations, has delivered 12,000 food packages to the Iranian…
Climate change or poor management: What are the major reasons behind devastating floods?
Tehran Times – Although climate change could be a cause for recent torrential rainfalls and flooding, poor management and ignoring watershed management…
President urges swift repair of flood-hit buildings
IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday stressed the need for expediting repair works on the flood-hit areas, saying that restoration of…
OFID approves $500,000 aid to flood-hit areas in Iran
IRNA – Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the international organizations in Vienna Kazem Gharibabadi on Tuesday announced that OPEC Fund for…
Malaysian Islamic Institutes representatives visit Khuzestan
IRNA – Representatives of the Malaysian Islamic Institutes arrived in Khuzestan province on Wednesday to see extent of the damages inflicted by…