Press TV - Heavy downpours have triggered severe flooding across several cities and villages in southeastern Iran. So far one person has been confirmed dead and another has been reported missing. Over the past two days, severe rainfall and flooding have blocked roads, destroyed houses and displaced hundreds of people in the southeastern provinces ...

Reuters - An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 shook northeastern Iran on Thursday, but there was little damage and no casualties, state television reported. The quake was centered on an area near Sangan, a town of about 10,000 people near the border with Afghanistan, at a shallow depth of 8 km (5 miles). Our near-final report is that about 14 villages ...

Tehran Times The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has rescued 37,536 individuals in natural disasters or accidents happened due to human errors since the beginning of summer (June 22), within the framework of the national rescue and relief scheme, IRCS director Morteza Salimi has said. The national rescue and relief scheme aims at performing ...

Tasnim Head of Irans Relief and Rescue Organization v said relief operations continue in flood-stricken provinces of the country and that about 300,000 people have been accommodated in emergency shelters. Relief efforts are continuing in the provinces of Ilam, Golestan, Khuzestan, Razavi Khorasan, North Khorasan, Kerman, Sistan and Balouchestan,...

IRNA Iranian relief and rescue is the best pattern for other countries, Vice President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Zhu Chen said. Zhu made the remarks Sunday while visiting Iranian Relief and Rescue Organization. He underlined the facilities of the Iranian organization as a suitable pattern for helping ...

AFP- Iranian officials said rescue teams would work through the night, battling blizzard conditions to find a passenger plane that disappeared in the Zagros mountains on Sunday with 66 people aboard. Iran's Red Crescent said the search for Aseman Airlines flight EP3704, which disappeared from radar 45 minutes after taking off from Tehran, was ...

IRNA- Head of Relief and Rescue Organization of the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran said on Monday that the rescue workers have provided services to 56,200 people trapped in the snow in 21 provinces nationwide during the past five days. Talking to IRNA, Morteza Salimi said the rescue services have been offered to the people ...

IRNA - Head of Relief and Rescue Organization of Iran's Red Crescent Society Morteza Salimi said the the 5.2-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday night killed one in Alborz Province, near capital and injured 97 in Tehran and neighboring provinces. Talking to IRNA, Salimi said the quake was also felt in Qom Province in west of Tehran, northern province ...

Tasnim Head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) Morteza Salimi said the Islamic Republic plans to build a field hospital in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. The Iranian ambassador to Dhaka informed us today that the Bangladeshi government has agreed to designate a plot of land for Iran to build a ...

Tasnim Irans Red Crescent Society is going to deliver the third consignment of humanitarian aid to the Muslim people of Myanmar who have taken refuge in neighboring Bangladesh from a military crackdown. The new consignment of humanitarian aid, weighing 30 tons, will be sent to Bangladesh on Friday, Head of the Relief and Rescue Organization ...

Press TV - Forty tons of Iran's relief aid has reached the Bangladesh border with Myanmar, where tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are stranded after fleeing what has been called "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by the UN. The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Morteza Salimi, who was on board the flight to the southeastern city ...

IRNA Head of the Relief Aid and Rescue Organization Morteza Salimi says the 75-ton humanitarian aid consignment of the Islamic Republic of Iran Red Crescent Society (RCS) has been delivered to the government of Syria. The RCS website quotes Salimi as saying that the consignment included 400 tents, 4,000 blankets, 400 sets of utensils, 400 heating ...