Unprecedented Flooding Hits Iran, Forces Village Evacuations
GENEVA/LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Heavy flooding continued in Iran on Tuesday as many provinces geared up for days of waterlogged misery and authorities warned of possible floods in the capital Tehran as well the oil-rich...
The Struggle to Save Iraq’s Last Persian Leopards
By Charlotte Bruneau and Mohammed Jalal
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, April 21 (Reuters) - Tying a camera trap around a tree trunk on Bamo mountain in Iraq's Kurdistan region, brothers Bahez and Nabaz Farooq Ali hope to...
The Majority of Iranians Are Affected by Drought, Government Official Says
By Azadeh Karimi
The director of Iran’s Meteorological Department and Drought Management Center, Sadegh Ziaian, has said that 85 percent of the country’s population struggles with water shortage and drought. According to Mr. Ziaian, the...
Iran’s Regions Are Hit by Severe Drought, Water Shortage
Despite a 220 percent increase in rainfall in the past 11 months, 97 percent of the urban, rural, and nomadic populations of Iran continue to experience drought and water shortage, ISNA (Iranian Students News...
Earthquake Victims in Northwest Iran Get Poor Emergency Aid
By Kayhan Life Staff
Failure to provide emergency aid to the victims of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Khoi and surrounding villages, in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, on Jan. 28 has again exposed...
Majority of Iranians Affected by Severe Drought, Says Expert
Close to 97 percent of the Iranian population, meaning more than 77 million people, are living in drought-stricken regions, says Sadegh Ziaeian, the director of the National Emergency Management of Drought and Meteorological Disasters....
Oil From Sanchi Reached Japan Shores
By Osamu Tsukimori
TOKYO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Oil that reached islands in southern Japan earlier this month is highly likely to have come from the sunken Iranian tanker Sanchi, the Japan Coast Guard said on...
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...
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...
Southern Iranian Soil from Fields, Farms Being Smuggled to Qatar, Official Says
Dirt from farms and grasslands in southern Iranian provinces has been smuggled to Qatar for the past decade to be used for creating man-made islands and new land along the Persian Gulf coastline, the...
