Reported by PMOI/MEK
Iran, April 7, 2019 – Latest news on Sunday afternoon from flood-hit areas of Iran are raising concerns and becoming increasingly disturbing.
The regime’s Crisis Management official in the oil-rich Khuzestan Province of southwest Iran is facing grave danger and 33,500 homes may be consumed by rising floodwaters.
The Friday prayer imam in the city of Susangerd is warning of the entire city being literally taken over by incoming floods. Authorities have also banned any small vehicles from using the Ahvaz-Ahndimeshk road due to escalating floodwaters.
The city hospital in Susangerd has been evacuated and patients transferred to hospitals in Ahvaz.
Villages located west of Karun River near the city of Khorramshahr in Khuzestan Province have also received warnings to brace for floods and be ready for evacuation. In Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province, authorities are saying floodwater levels will increase more than half a meter, leading to even more problems for the locals.
Rising waters of Karun River is also causing blockages in the Ahvaz-Abadan Road.
The mayor in Shush, southwest Iran, is warning of people not to use the Shush-Ahvaz transit road due to rising water levels of Karkheh River. 400,000 people have been dislocated, according to the MP representing Shush in the regime’s Majlis (parliament).
A senior water official in Khuzestan Province unveiled the fact that 160 villages lack drinking water, of which 100 villages have been evacuated. The mayor of Ahvaz is reportedly saying the water levels of Karun River is rising.
As the regime fails to provide aid, anger among locals is increasing to a concerning scale for the mullahs’ regime.
“You call yourselves our representatives? What have you done for the people?… People have been engulfed by floodwaters for a month and no measures have been taken…,” a man yells at the MP from Dezful, southwest Iran.
30,000 people have lost their homes in the recent floods of Poledokhtar, according to the MP of this city in Lorestan Province, western Iran.
Around three million schoolchildren have been severely effected because of the recent floods, according to Reza Madadi, the Education Minister’s representative in the Department of Aid to Flood Victims.
A regime official in Dasht-e Azadegan of Khuzestan Province also made interesting remarks:
“There’s nothing left of the farmlands. We are witnessing a catastrophe with our own eyes. As if we have returned to the [Iran-Iraq] war era. We hadn’t seen such a crisis even during the war. The amount of destruction we have seen in the floods of last year and this year is unprecedented… More than 80 to 90 percent of our agricultural lands are being destroyed and the aid provided is very weak. The entire province is engulfed in a crisis. Emergency helicopters must be sent here immediately.”
