Reuters - A county in southwestern Iran has been placed under lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday, also quoting the provincial governor as saying there had been a sharp rise in new cases across the province. Tasnim quoted Gholamreza Shariati, governor of Khuzestan province, which borders Iraq and ...

Reuters - Iran moved on Saturday to evacuate more towns and villages threatened by floods after continued rain in the southwest of the country, state television reported, as the nationwide toll from the flooding reached 70. Many residents of Susangerd, with a population of about 50,000, and five other communities in the oil-rich southwestern province ...

Tehran Times - The governor of Khuzestan Province on Monday rejected as false a recent report which claimed 22 individuals who were arrested over the September 22 terrorist attack in Ahvaz have been executed. This is an utterly false report, Gholamreza Shariati was quoted by the IRNA news agency as saying. Shariati said the charges pressed against ...

IRNA Khuzestan Governor Gholamreza Shariati said on Monday that no civil activist has been arrested in connection to the recent terrorist attack in Iran southern city of Ahvaz. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Shariati said that a woman has been taken into custody in this regard. No minor or civil activist is seen among the ...