Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi visited Hoor al-Azim wetland in Khuzestan and inspected the water shortage crisis in the southwestern province on Friday morning. President Raisi traveled to the southern province on Friday morning just a day after first cabinet meeting of his administration in capital Tehran. President Raisi, who is visiting Khuzestan ...

Reuters - Iran has shut around a dozen oil wells in its oil-rich southwestern Khuzestan province because of massive floods, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Wednesday, leading to a drop of up to 20,000 barrels per day in crude production. Irans worst flooding in 70 years, which started on March 19, has killed at least 76 people, forced ...

Financial Tribune - Despite the recent floods there has been no report of oil spill in Khuzestan Province oilfields, most of which are located in or near the famous Hoor al-Azim Wetland, the production manager of National Iranian South Oil Company, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company said. "Although several oil wells in the giant Azadegan ...

IRNA Director General of Khuzestan Department of Environment said that the Hoor Al-Azim Lagoon blaze is still ongoing after 70 days in three Iraqi districts in the vicinity of the Iranian southwestern borders. 'East winds guided the smoke back towards Iraq yesterday,' Ahamd Reza Lahijanzadeh told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Saturday....

MNA The Iranian first vice-president Eshagh Jahangiri has called on the Iraqi government to respect Irans water right in Hour al-Azim wetland, urging the foreign Ministry to pursue water-related issues. Eshagh Jahangiri made the remarks in a Supreme Council meeting on water on Tuesday, during which he also said that the Islamic Republic of Iran ...

MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sent a letter to Foreign Ministry, tasking the body to seriously follow the case of Hour al-Azim wildfire in Iraqi part of the wetland, said chief of Khuzestan provincial department of environment on Saturday. The chief of Irans Department of Environment Isa Kalantari had requested for the help ...

MNA Iranian Vice President and Head of the Department of Environment (DoE) Isa Kalantari has arrived in Khuzestan province to closely monitor efforts to prevent wildfires in Iraqi part of Hour al-Azim wetland from reaching Iran. Isa Kalantari arrived in the provincial capital of Khuzestan province, Ahvaz, on Sunday. Iraqi part of Hour ...

MNA Wildfire is once again sweeping through Hour al-Azim wetland and has drastically influenced the air quality of Khuzestan province in Iran. The wildfire in Iraqi part of the wetland had been mostly contained some 5 days ago with the help of aircrafts and helicopters. A shared wetland between Iran and Iraq, Hour al-Azim has been hit by wildfire ...

IRNA A thick layer of smoke resulted from a blaze in the Iraqi part of Hoor Al-Azim lagoon crippled everyday activities in three cities southwestern Iran, a local senior official said on Monday. The fire broke out some 17 days ago in western parts of the lagoon straddling Iran and Iraq. On Friday, Iran began helping its western neighbor fight the ...

Tasnim Iran has dispatched two firefighting helicopters to Iraq to assist in extinguishing a fire in Hoor al-Azim lagoon in the Arab country, an official said Friday. Two firefighting choppers belonging to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force have flown to Iraq to contain fire in the reed beds of Hoor al-Azim lagoon, head of ...

Tasnim Many cities in Irans southwestern province of Khuzestan, including capital Ahvaz, have been inundated by plumes of smoke from neighboring Iraq, where reed beds of a border lagoon are blazing. While the cities of Khuzestan are contending with unbearable temperatures and shortage of fresh water in long days of summer, a pall of smoke has hung ...

Financial Tribune- Under-fire environment chief, Massoumeh Ebtekar, has called for the formation of a fact-finding mission to look into the cause of the desiccation of Hoor al-Azim Wetland and the Department of Environments measures to revive the key lagoon. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 22nd National-Regional Conference of Iranian Society ...

Tehran, April 22, IRNA Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Tuesday that a project concerning Karoon oil fields has been forwarded to the Oil Ministry which will result in the drying up of Hoor al-Azim wetland. I disagreed with the idea as I consider it a treachery to the future generations. Zanganeh was speaking at a ceremony on the occasion ...