At least six people have lost their lives and some 80 others have been trapped under rubble after a building partially collapsed in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan.
Read More »Iran arrests armed Mossad agents plotting urban riots, terror
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has arrested a network of agents with the Israeli Mossad spy agency at the Western borders, confiscating a large cache of weapons and ammunition that they were planning to use to provoke riots and terror inside the country. The ministry’s director-general for counterintelligence said on Tuesday that …
Read More »All mosques in Iran to reopen on Tuesday
All mosques in Iran will reopen on Tuesday, a further step in the government’s plans to ease restrictions that aimed to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, the official IRIB news agency reported. The decision to reopen the mosques was made in consultation with the ministry of health, IRIB …
Read More »Iran flood death toll rises to 76; five provinces still at risk.
Iranian officials are warning that even though floodwaters have been receding in most parts of the country, several provinces remain under a flood warning due to renewed heavy precipitation. Vast expanses of the country are experiencing a new spell of rainfall, Ahad Vazifeh, an official with Iran’s Meteorological Organization, was …
Read More »Iran floods: More cities evacuated as threat persists.
Iranian authorities have ordered mass evacuations in several cities amid fears of more flooding as a result of rising water levels in rivers and major dams. People in at least six cities and over 100 villages in the southwestern province of Khuzestan were told on early Saturday to leave their …
Read More »Iran orders evacuations in Khuzestan amid flood risk.
Iran has ordered the evacuation of about 70 villages in the south-western province of Khuzestan due to a growing risk of floods, state media report. At least 45 people have died in the past two weeks after heavy rains, with flooding affecting at least 23 of the country’s 31 provinces. …
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