WHO assists Iran to enhance health system resilience against floods
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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…
Iran floods: Rapid needs assessment by NRC
United Nations Iran – Since the middle of March 2019, intense rainfalls, storms and blizzards caused flooding in the Islamic Republic of…
Slovakia humanitarian aid to flood-stricken Iran arrives
Relief Web – Slovakian humanitarian aid to the Iranian flood-stricken people was delivered to the country Red Crescent Society on Sunday. The…
Iran starts reconstruction of schools in flood-hit areas
IRNA – The ground breaking ceremony of reconstruction of schools in flood-stricken areas in northern Iran started by Iranian Education Minister Mohammad…
Rouhani lauds IRCS efforts during recent floods
MNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appreciated hard work of Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) personnel, especially during the recent floods in…
Iran Red Crescent receives China-Austria 2nd aid shipment
IRNA – The second humanitarian aid consignments of China and Austria were delivered to Iran’s flood-stricken people. The Chinese consignment consisted of…
Iranian teachers fill gap between state, society after floods
Al-Monitor | Mohammad Reza Niknejad: Although governments are responsible for dealing with natural disasters, individual and collective relief efforts by citizens cannot be…
Thailand donates $100,000 to flood victims in Iran
Relief Web – Thai deputy foreign minister on Monday extended his condolences over recent devastating floods in different provinces in the Islamic…
Iran floods further add to public mistrust of government organizations
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: This year, the Nowruz holidays in Iran were accompanied by unpleasant events. Heavy rainfall in the final days…
Iran’s flood-hit areas receive first batch of Chinese aid
MENAFN – On Friday, the first batch of emergency assistance materials from the Chinese government to Iran’s flood-hit areas delivered in capital…
Photos: Floods hit Aqqala again
ISNA | Amir Kholoosi: The town of Aqqala in northern province of Golestan witnessed its second flash floods since the start of…
Norway allocates cash aid to Iran flood victims: embassy
MNA – The Norwegian Embassy in Tehran said on Saturday that Norway has allocated over $700,000 to the relief operations to Iran’s…
FAO to see if ‘Certain States’ led locust attack on Iran
Iran Front Page – The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has dispatched a delegation to Iran to discover the possible…
Army official: No danger threatening Aqqala
FNA – A senior Army official in the Northern province of Golestan said that no danger is threatening the town of Aqqala…
UN Workshop on disaster loss and damage assessment will be held in Tehran
United Nations Iran – Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (ESCAP-APDIM) in Iran in cooperation with the…
VP: Iran to file lawsuit against US at Hague for prevention of humanitarian aid to flooded people
FNA – Iranian Vice-President for Legal Affairs Laya Joneydi underlined efforts to lodge a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ)…
Iranian minister rejects UNICEF report on flood-hit children out of school
Tasnim – Iranian Minister of Education Seyed Mohammad Bathaei vehemently rejected a recent report by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund…
Rouhani: Enemies’ plot to tell lies about drought in Iran
IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that one of the enemies’ plots, especially the Zionist regime and the US, is…
Senior MP in Baghdad summit blasts US regional policies
MNA – Addressing a parliamentary meeting in Baghdad, senior Iranian lawmaker expressed gratitude for humanitarian aid Iraqis dispatched to flood-hit regions in…
Iran sets up trade vehicle with Turkey as Saudi, UAE send flood aid
Al-Monitor – Iran and Turkey have set up a special transaction channel in order to bypass US sanctions on Iran, according to…
Qatar sends humanitarian aid to flood victims in Iran
Tasnim – The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has sent consignments of humanitarian assistance to flood-stricken people in Iran, local reports said.…
Photos: President visiting flood-hit areas in west
President.ir – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in western province of Lorestan on Saturday to oversee the rescue-and-relief operations underway in the…
Gov. to pay for temporary housing of flood-hit families: Rouhani
MNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the government will pay for temporary housing of the people in flood-affected areas of the…
Nearly 300,000 flood victims housed in emergency shelters: Iranian official
Tasnim – Head of Iran’s Relief and Rescue Organization v said relief operations continue in flood-stricken provinces of the country and that…
Rouhani arrives in Lorestan prov. to visit flood-hit regions
MNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived at Khorramabad Airport this morning to visit flood-hit areas of Lorestan province. He is now…