Landslides Threaten Flood-Stricken Provinces in Iran, News Agency Says
April 29, 2019 - Landslides threaten 117 villages in the Iranian provinces worst hit by recent flash floods, Khabar Online news agency has said. According to the report, 92 villages in the southern province...
Iran Files Complaint Against US at ICJ for Blocks on International Flood Aid
APRIL 26 - Iran has filed a complaint against the US at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for preventing any outside financial help from reaching flood victims, Laya Joneydi, vice...
Southern Iran Braced for More Flooding as Zagros Mountain Snow Melts
Water levels in the Karkheh and Karun rivers in the southern province of Khuzestan could rise significantly when warmer weather melts 15,000 cubic meters of snow on the Zagros mountain range, which spans the...
Southern Iran Ravaged by Locust Swarms
April 16, 2019 - Swarms of desert locusts (short-horned grasshoppers) have attacked farmland in the southern and southeastern provinces of Hormozgan, Bushehr, Kerman, Fars and Sistan, and Baluchestan as well as Qeshm Island.
Millions of...
Iran’s Southern Regions Hard Hit by Flash Floods
8th April 2019 - Torrential rains have caused massive flooding in many parts of Iran in the past few weeks. Water levels have been rising at an alarming rate in most dams in the southern...
Ancient Iranian Heritage Sites Suffer Flood Damage
Flash floods have inflicted $60 million worth of damages to ancient historic sites in 19 provinces since March, according to Vali Teymouri, the deputy director for tourism at the Iran Cultural Heritage, Handcraft and...
Khamenei Expresses Concerns About Iran’s Low Population Growth, Flood Damage
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reiterated his concern over the country’s negative rate of population growth, according to the new Health Minister Saeed Namaki.
“During a private conversation that took place after a...
Persian Deer Sanctuary Destroyed by Floods in Southern Iran, Official Says
Flood water has submerged a wildlife sanctuary for the Persian fallow deer near the southern city of Dezful, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported, citing Ahmad Reza Lahijanzadeh, the director of Khuzestan Province’s...
Iran Calls Emergency in Flood-Threatened Southwest Province
DUBAI, March 30 (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it faced an emergency in a southwestern province threatened by flooding and worked to evacuate dozens of villages as forecasters predicted more of the heavy...
Iran’s Handling of Recent Floods Condemned by Environmentalists
By Natasha Phillips
Mar. 29 - At least 44 people have died in flash floods in Iran. The announcement was made by Hamid Reza Khankeh the deputy head of Iran’s emergency organization and published in Iranian...
