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…
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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…
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…