Analysis by PMOI/MEK
December 10, 2020—Iran is now engulfed in devastating waves of the coronavirus. The number of victims of the coronavirus outbreak is approaching 180,000.
In this situation, 55 million people in Iran are struggling with a flood crisis. The flood has imposed heavy damages to 12 provinces. The southern provinces of Fars, Bushehr, and Khuzestan are among the highly affected provinces.
The provinces of Golestan, Fars, and Khuzestan also experienced heavy floods last year.
Now after one year, the same scenario is happening. The result has been at least nine victims and millions of dollars in damages.
The Iranian regime’s officials blame heavy rains for the floods, just as they did last year.
On December 8, the state-run newspaper Vatan-e Emrooz published a report titled “Where is management” about the ongoing flood crisis in Khuzestan province.
Vatan-e Emrooz newspaper published an article titled Where is management
Vatan-e Emrooz quoted the head of the Inspection Organization of Iran Hasan Darwishian as saying, “This problem [flood in Khuzestan] is not a new problem that belongs to today or last year. We have had this problem for decades.”
“This problem is due to the infrastructural shortages which should have been predicted earlier,” said Darwishian. He also confessed that “Khuzestan’s comprehensive drainage plan started back in 2006, but unfortunately not more than 40 percent of the plan has been completed.”
On December 7, the state-run Jamaran website wrote some details about the regime’s mismanagement. “In 2019, a budget of $1.2 billion was requested for countering natural disasters, but around $71 million was allocated for the task in the fiscal budget, and nothing has been paid to the executive organizations of the province yet,” Jamaran quoted the head of Crisis Management Organization Ismail Najjar as saying.
This fact alone shows how much the Iranian regime’s officials care about people’s lives.
Ismail Najjar also shed light on the regime’s mismanagement through the past decades, “Unfortunately, in the flood-affected areas, bridges’ output capacities are not complying with the water volume flow rate of rivers, and this problem has caused flooding in Khuzestan and Bushehr provinces.”
“For years, lack of even one drainage channel for driving surface water away has caused this problem in many cities of Khuzestan,” said Najjar.
The question is why the regime has no problem in providing enough budget for expansion of its ballistic missile program, illegal nuclear program, and export of terrorism to the world? Yet, when it comes to the Iranian people’s lives and welfare, it lacks the budget for 40-year-old problems.
On December 7, an Iranian regime official, head of Meshkat seminary Gholamreza Qasemian, said that 80 percent of Iran’s problems are due to mismanagement, and 20 percent are due to the U.S. and sanctions. “Ahvaz sewage has been mixing with its water. The water smells like sewage. We go to such places. What does this have to do with the U.S.?
“If this happened in northern Tehran and in top officials’ houses, they would fire the minister in an hour, not after 40 years. What does this have to do with the U.S.?” Qasemian said, and this is a fact that the mullahs know better than anyone else.
