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Iran: Third flood disaster in two years

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, December 2, 2020—Heavy rains and floods have caused severe damage in eight Iranian provinces and impacted the lives of many people in these areas. Bushehr, Ilam, Khuzestan, Fars, Qazvin, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Golestan, and Lorestan are provinces that have been grappling with heavy floods in recent days.

People’s homes and agricultural lands in 51 cities have been damaged. Non-standard drainage and lack of necessary dredging have led to the lack of capacity to drain large volumes of rain, resulting in major floods in the south, west, and north parts of the country.

In Khuzestan province, the flood has disrupted traffic and transportation in cities of Ahvaz, Mahshahr, Omidiyeh, and Ramshir. In Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, people face serious problems because of the flood. In mountainous areas, landslides and the blockage of major intercity roads have only added to people’s problems.

Majid Naserinejad, a member of the Majlis (parliament), warned of an extremely critical situation. “Heavy rainfalls will bring society’s health in a more dangerous situation during the coronavirus outbreak. This is while according to forecasts, we will have a lot of rain in the coming days,” Naserinejad said.

The cause of the crisis

The state-run media reported the flood is due to heavy raining. But meteorology centers had already forecasted and warned about the heavy rain in the months of November and December. Also, in the last two years, most provinces faced heavy floods, but the regime did nothing so far to prevent it. The regime did not even inspect, repair, dredge or expand the drains. Like many other countries, the regime could mobilize all its facilities and spend a fair budget to take the necessary preventive measures, but refrained from doing so.

The state-run Young Journalists Club reported on November 28: “Despite two years that have passed, the people of Lorestan who faced with flood are still living in mud and nobody is taking care of them.”

Naserinejad also acknowledged, “The water and sewage network of Khuzestan, Abadan, Khorramshahr, Ahvaz, Shadegan, Dasht-e Azadegan, etc., is still facing many problems and the allocated funds were not sufficient for the shortcomings. Therefore, a wider risk of floods is even more serious."

The main cause of the third flood disaster in Iran since 2018 is the mullahs’ regime negligence and inaction. As with the coronavirus disaster, where the regime refrained from imposing quarantines on cities, the mullahs are not willing to allocate a budget for drainage to prevent floods.

A broken and corrupt economy, mismanagement of the mullahs, and looting billions of dollars of Iranian people’s wealth have led to even a bigger crisis for the poor people during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the people’s power to buy basic goods has decreased, and the middle class has almost disappeared, the regime continues to increase the budget of its Defense Ministry instead of helping people through tough times.

In this regard regime’s Defense Minister, Amir Hatami stipulated on November 30, that during a meeting on reviewing the proposed 2020 budget bill, “we have decided to double the Defense Ministry budget.”

In this regard, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), expressed her deep sympathy with the Khuzestani people who face destructive floods. In a tweet, she stressed that “Mullahs’ destructive policies in wasting our nation’s wealth in unpatriotic nuclear, missile progs, the export of terror and war, made our people vulnerable to flood, earthquake, and COVID19.”

 

 

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