Six people have died in Gilan and Mazandaran after falling from a great height while shovelling snow from rooftops.
The crisis response branch of the ministry of health told ILNA that Gilan has seen 96 cases of people falling from heights, adding that two have been killed and another one is in critical condition.
In Mazandaran, he added, 26 falls ...
TEHRAN, Feb. 9 (MNA) 212 Parliamentarians have demanded that president compensate for financial damages inflicted upon people in snow-hit regions.
The letter also offered gratitude to the officials in charge to help the snow-hit people in Northern provinces 212.
At the end of todays parliament open session, Zargham Sadeghi read the letter ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has dispatched his ministers of power and transportation and development to Gilan and Mazandaranprovinces, where heavy snowfall and extreme weather conditions have wreaked havoc.
The ministers have been told to provide immediate relief from inaccessible roads and power and water outages.
Meanwhile, the interior ...
TEHRAN, Feb. 5 (MNA) Through the recent week most cities of Iran from west to east have been blanketed under heavy, nonstop snow which has crippled the residents.
Northern provinces faced the worst problems due to utilities outage.
Energy and Transportation ministers have visited Northern provinces after the president mandate.
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NasimIrans revolutionary Guard corps and Basij members aid rescue teams to provide supplies and save people from the heavy snow storm.
The head of Gilan IRGC told Nasim that its members have joined the Red Crescent to help people stuck in the heavy snow, which is reported to be two-meter high in some areas.
Water and power supply in the remote ...
TEHRAN, Feb. (5) President has assigned energy and transportation ministers to a specific mission in Northern provinces of Guilan and Mazandaran.
Abbas Akhundi, minister of roads and transportation started his travel from Chalous special road, where he oversaw the performance of road-keeping groups.
Our colleagues have been deployed in national ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has sent Revolutionary Guard and army troops to two northern provinces struck by heavy snowfall that trapped thousands on the road and cut off water and power supply in the remote region.
The country's state television says troops joined the Red Crescent and other rescue teams in Gilan and Mazandaran provinces where the snowfall ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Heavy snow has left more than 480,000 homes in northern Iran without power and gas supply pressure is falling in some cities, Iran's Energy Ministry news service said on Monday.
Cold weather has spread across much of the country over the last few days and hit northern provinces particularly hard, the Shana news service said.
Rescue ...