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2022-08-09 18:49
Relief being provided to over 4,700 flood victims
TEHRAN – Relief and rescue services are being provided to flood victims in 5 provinces across the country, Mehdi Valipour, head of the IRCS Relief and Rescue Organization, has said.
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2022-08-05 18:23
Flood incurs $740,000 damage to Tehran nomadic areas
TEHRAN- Flooding caused a total of 200 billion rials (around $740,000) damage to nomads of Tehran, Director of nomadic affairs of Tehran province has said.
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2022-08-02 18:55
Relief, rescue operations underway in flood-stricken areas
TEHRAN – Aid to flood victims is still going on in 162 cities across the country, Mehdi Valipour, head of the IRCS Relief and Rescue Organization, has said.
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2022-07-29 16:48
Floods in 17 provinces leave 32 dead, 25 missing
TEHRAN – Flash flooding in 17 provinces of the country has so far claimed 32 lives and left 25 people missing.
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2022-01-15 17:06
Philanthropists donate $220,000 to flood victims
TEHRAN – A sum of 62 billion rials (around $220,000) has been allocated by philanthropists to four flood-stricken provinces in the southern part of the country, IRNA reported on Saturday.
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2021-08-03 17:59
Flooding leaves 5 dead, injured in 7 provinces
TEHRAN – Severe rain triggered flooding in seven provinces of the country, which have claimed three lives, and two went missing, spokesman or the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has announced.
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2021-07-18 20:00
Flood hits 10 provinces, leaving 6 dead, 2 missing
TEHRAN – Torrential rain has triggered flooding in 10 provinces across the country, leaving six dead and two missing so far, Mehdi Valipour, head of Relief and Rescue Organization affiliated to the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), has stated.
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2021-05-08 17:43
Flood hits 17 provinces across Iran
TEHRAN – Flood has stricken at least 17 provinces across the country over the past nine days, IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
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2020-12-07 17:20
Seven dead as flooding hits southern Iran
TEHRAN – Flood has killed seven people so far in the southern provinces of Bushehr and Hormozgan during the last few days.
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2020-01-18 18:47
Iranian Zoroastrians provide aid to flood-hit Sistan-Baluchestan
TEHRAN – Zoroastrian people residing in Yazd province sent their contributions to the flood-hit areas of Sistan-Baluchestan province, head of the association of Zoroastrians, has said.
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2020-01-18 17:03
‘Iran’s southern ports fully operational despite floods’
TEHRAN – The ports affairs director of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) said the recent floods in Sistan-Baluchestan and Hormozgan provinces in southern Iran hasn’t caused any damages to the country’s ports in the mentioned regions.
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2020-01-18 16:08
Army assisting flood-stricken people in southeastern Iran
TEHRAN - The chief of the Army Ground Force said on Friday that certain units his command have flocked to the flood-hit regions in the southeastern part of the country to help those affected by the heavy rains.
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2020-01-14 19:33
All-out efforts underway to help flood-hit Sistan-Baluchestan
TEHRAN – All the facilities and capacities of the country have been mobilized to assist people in the flood-stricken province of Sistan-Baluchestan, IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
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2020-01-12 19:22
One dead, one missing as flooding hits southern Iran
TEHRAN – Torrential rain has triggered flooding in southern parts of the country, leaving one dead and one missing so far, head of Rescue and Relief Organization Morteza Salimi said.
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2020-01-11 20:20
20% of areas in Iran at high risk of flood
TEHRAN – Twenty percent of areas across Iran are highly prone to flooding, Khosro Shahbazi, head of the Forests, Range, and Watershed Management Organization (FRWMO), has said.
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2019-11-02 17:02
Flood hits 5 provinces, leaving 2 dead
TEHRAN – Torrential rain has triggered flooding in 5 provinces of the country, claiming two lives so far, head of Rescue and Relief Organization Morteza Salimi said.
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2019-10-01 19:02
WHO assists Iran to enhance health system resilience against floods
TEHRAN - World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) of the Islamic Republic of Iran hold a two-day (1-2 October 2019) expert meeting in Tehran on Science-Policy-Practice Interface for Enhancing Health System Resilience against Floods in the country.
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2019-07-14 00:05
IRCS providing flood survivors with 10,000 home appliance packages
TEHRAN – Iran Red Crescent Society (IRCS) volunteer organization started on Saturday distributing some 10,000 packages of essential household appliances to the flood-hit families, head of IRCS, Ali Asghar Peyvandi, has said.
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2019-07-02 20:44
10,000 flood-hit classrooms to be retrofitted within 3 months
TEHRAN – Some 10,000 classrooms which have been destroyed by flood will be fully renovated and prepared by the beginning of school year (September 23), director of schools’ renovation, development and equipment organization has announced.
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2019-06-12 09:42
40,000 flood-stricken families received appliance packages
TEHRAN – Iran Red Crescent Society (IRCS) volunteer organization provided some 40,000 packages consisting of household appliances to the families affected by flood, head of IRCS volunteer organization Mohammad Nasiri has stated.
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2019-05-25 22:26
$7b to be allocated to retrofit, rebuild flood-devastated houses
TEHRAN – A budget of 290 trillion rials (nearly $7 billion) will be allotted to reconstruct and repair housing units destructed by flood in 18 provinces across the country, Mehdi Jamalinejad, deputy interior minister for urban and rural development has announced.
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2019-05-15 20:55
Welfare Organization collects $4.5m for flood-hit provinces
TEHRAN – Within the framework of a campaign launched by Iran’s Welfare Organization philanthropists donated a total of 190 billion rials (about $4.5 million) to the flood survivors, an official with the Welfare Organization has said.
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2019-05-15 19:52
China’s third humanitarian package for flood survivors arrives
TEHRAN – China has airlifted relief supplies to the country for the third time to help those hit by massive floods, Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday.
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2019-05-09 01:05
Climate change or poor management: What are the major reasons behind devastating floods?
TEHRAN – Although climate change could be a cause for recent torrential rainfalls and flooding, poor management and ignoring watershed management are also to blame for enhanced flood destruction, Seyed Mohammad Mojabi, head of environment committee of the Expediency Council has said.
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2019-05-09 00:53
Iranian donations to flood survivors hit $57m
TEHRAN – Iranian philanthropists have contributed some 2.4 trillion rials (nearly $57 million) to the people residing in flood-ravaged provinces across the country, head of the Red Crescent Society volunteer organization has said.
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2019-05-07 22:36
‘Wetland restoration budget must be spent on increasing vegetation cover’
TEHRAN – After flood filled the dams and water resources in the country, some claimed that the budget for conservation of wetlands and reforestation must be cut, while it must be earmarked to restore vegetation cover in forests and rangelands, deputy chief for natural environment and biodiversity directorate at the Department of Environment has stated.
