MNA Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) top commander Major General Hossein Salami said that enemy must retreat as long as Irans legitimate demands are not met. He made the remarks in his visit to flood-hit Khuzestan province on Thursday and said, Khuzestan province has always been the center of empathy, unity and amity among all walks of ...

IRNA Eleven countries dispatched humanitarian and relief aid to the flood-stricken people of southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan two months ago, managing director of the province Red Crescent Society said on Monday. Most of the aid including food and clothes have been distributed to the flood-hit people, Ali Khodadadi told IRNA. Two million ...

United Nations Iran - World Food Program (WFP), food-assistance branch of the United Nations, has delivered 12,000 food packages to the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) to be distributed among flood victims in southwestern Khuzestan province, IRNA reported on Sunday. The packages will be distributed among 50,000 flood victims residing in the ...

IRNA Representatives of the Malaysian Islamic Institutes arrived in Khuzestan province on Wednesday to see extent of the damages inflicted by floods on the provincial population. [Malaysian Islamic Institutes representatives visit Khuzestan] Managing director of Khuzestan Red Crescent Society Ali Khodadadi told IRNA that the five-member team ...

President.ir - President arrived in Ahvaz City in order to visit flood-hit areas in the southwestern province of Khuzestan. Dr Hassan Rouhanis plane touched down in Ahvaz Airport on Saturday and he was welcomed by Governor-General and local officials. The President is set to visit flood-stricken areas in Khuzestan Province and issue the necessary ...

IRNA Part of Iraqi people's donations for flood-stricken people of Iran's Khuzestan province, was distributed among the resident of the town of Shadgan on Thursday. The items included mineral water, food and health care items. Also, tens of road construction vehicles started operation to strengthen flood walls in Abadan-Mahshahr road as well ...

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 Representatives from ten international organizations visited flood-stricken villages of southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, a senior provincial official announced on Tuesday. Hamid Silavi, director general of Bureau of Aliens and Foreign Immigrant Affairs of southwestern province of Khuzestan, told IRNA. The 31-member international delegation ...

Mizan | Hassan Shirvani: With unprecedented rainfall in springtime and considerable increase of flow rate of rivers, a large part of villages of Susangerd, Khuzestan province, sunk in water and consequently, torrential rainfalls incurred serious damages to the agricultural land areas and residential homes of villagers.    ...

Xinhua -- The recent floodings in most parts of Iran killed at least 76 people, Press TV reported on Sunday. The heavy downpours in north, west and southwest of the country also caused hundreds injured. Iranian officials are warning that even though floodwaters have been receding in most parts of the country, several provinces remain under the ...

MNA Irans Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati says the recent heavy rainfalls and flash floods sweeping across much of the provinces are estimated to have so far caused about 130 trillion rials ($3.01 billion) to the countrys agricultural sector. Addressing the Parliaments open session on Sunday, Hojjati noted that the southern Khuzestan province ...

Press TV - A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has blasted the United States for blacklisting the elite Iranian military force as a foolish decision. Brigadier General Hossein Salami said on Saturday that the US itself was a main sponsor of terrorism and has always supported tortures around the world despite laying ...

Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: Sweat rolling down his cheek, Ghasem Arabi filled sandbags to prop-up a makeshift dyke as flood waters surged just metres behind him in Iran's deluge-stricken southwest. "Our youth are working day and night," said the 37-year-old nurse as he helped shovel sand into plastic sacks held by fellow residents in the agricultural ...

Tasnim Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami highlighted the Armed Forces major role in relief and rescue operations in flood-hit areas across the country and said all of the capacities of the forces have been provided to the Crisis Management Organization. Speaking at a gathering of local commanders of the southwestern province ...

Press TV - Iran has shut down some oilfields in Khuzestan province as intensive efforts are underway to control damage from flash floods and prevent possibleenvironmental pollution, Minister of PetroleumBijan Zangeneh says. Zangeneh said Friday some oil pipes in theprovince have been emptied for the first time, and oil output has been reduced in ...

Financial Tribune - More than 1,500 kilometers of overhead and underground transmission lines and 1,043 power pylons in southwestern Khuzestan Province (except in the provincial capital Ahvaz) were damaged in the recent flash floods, managing director of Khuzestan Regional Electric Company said. Total damage to the electricity network in the province ...

Tehran Times - Recent severe flooding damaged 110,000 houses in provinces of Lorestan, Golestan and Mazandaran, ISNA reported on Wednesday. Following heavy rainfalls in the country particularly in provinces of Golestan, Mazandaran, Lorestan, and Khuzestan as well as other provinces in western, southwestern, and northeastern Iran severe flood struck ...

MNA A high-ranking Iranian army commander says that the Army uses helicopters and drones as a tool for flood mapping and detect areas which are prone to floods. Deputy Coordinator of the Iranian Army Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, who has been appointed as the commander of Army rescue operations in flooded regions in Khuzestan, made the remarks ...

Tasnim The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces equipment has been concentrated in oil-rich Khuzestan to deal with floods as some cities of the southwestern province were put on flood alert, the commander of the force said. In remarks on Thursday, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour pointed to the relief and rescue operations carried ...