Environment

Iran-HRM – The head of the Cyber Police in Khuzestan said that 24 internet activists were identified and detained for reporting on the devastating floods in the southwestern province, according to the judiciary’s news agency Mizan Online. “Due to the publication of rumors and fake news on the internet which has led to insecurity in the community’s psychological climate, experts …

Radiofarda – Recent prolonged and at times severe rains in Iran have helped put the country’s Lake Urmia on its way to revival, according to the governor of West Azerbaijan Province. Lake Urmia in northwest Iran was on the verge of dying, but has made a comeback after preservation efforts and heavy rains in 2019. April 2019 Lake Urmia, a …

Radiofarda – The enraged flood-stricken residents in Ain 2 district of Ahvaz, the capital city of the oil-rich Khuzestan province poured into the street on Friday, April 12, to protest government’s handling of floods and its failure to divert water into Hour Al-Azim marshes, reports on social media say. Protests in Ahvaz, capital of Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province. April 12, …

Radiofarda – The unprecedented floods that have devastated large parts of Iran since March 19 have finally affected its oil production. The oil-producing Khuzestan province in the southwest has seen waves of floods, with the latest inundation the result of maximum outflows from two large dams that have reached full capacity. Karim Zobaydi a member of Iran’s National Oil Company …

Radiofarda – Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has once again defended eight Iranian environmentalists who have been in detention for more than a year, charged with vague accusations. Last February, DiCaprio called for international support and circulated a petition for the release of the Iranian environmentalists who were arrested by the intelligence organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, IRGC. In …

PayvandNews – Recent severe flooding damaged 110,000 houses in provinces of Lorestan, Golestan and Mazandaran, ISNA reported on Wednesday. Following heavy rainfalls in the country particularly in provinces of Golestan, Mazandaran, Lorestan, and Khuzestan as well as other provinces in western, southwestern, and northeastern Iran severe flood struck many cities and villages. Aftermath of floods in Pol-e Dokhtar, Iran’s Lorestan …

PayvandNews – At least a total number of 77 schools were destroyed due to devastating floods in various provinces across Iran, a non-governmental organization said on Monday. Out of the 77 destroyed schools, 55 were in Lorestan Province in central west of Iran and 22 were in Golestan north of the country, according to Mehr Giti that has conducted an …

The governor of the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, southwest Iran, says a major dam on the Karkhe river is completely full, and local residents in several cities and villages have been ordered to evacuate their homes. Furthermore, according to Gholamreza Shariati, the volume of water in Iran’s biggest and only navigable river, Karoon, is increasing at an alarming rate of …

Iran-HRM – The state security forces have arrested four people in the capital for “spreading rumors” about the incompetence of officials in flood relief efforts, Tehran Police Chief announced Sunday. The SSf commander Hossein Rahimi who was cited by the state-run ISNA state-run News Agency admitted that government officials and commanders of armed forces presumably involved in relief efforts have …

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic President Hassan Rouhani has promised to “swiftly compensate” losses to flood victims, in a cabinet meeting on April 7. Meanwhile, Rouhani called all his cabinet members to prepare an accurate assessment of damages to people’s houses, industrial units, agricultural lands, orchards, and livestock farms. However, Rouhani’s first deputy, Eshaq Jahangiri had earlier admitted regretfully that …