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The truth behind the flood stricken areas of Iran

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

 

Iran, April 2, 2019 – Iranian regime’s officials during the past few days have appeared on stages to give more of their empty promises about compensating the people’s losses and preventing further damages from the flood. The government has been making promises to pay the people compensation even for those who don’t have insurance for their flood drowned cars or agriculture or even their live stocks, but at the same time place terms and conditions for these compensations. Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani said that the “government would compensate as much as it can,” who knows how much “it can” means!!!

The reason behind these empty promises with terms and conditions and with lots of IFs and MAYBEs is that the regime is extremely frightened of the eruption of people’s anger. The same anger that the supreme leader’s representative in the city of Shiraz, southern Iran, said when he visited some of the flood-devastated areas. He said, “Where ever we went, we heard people cursing us.”

After four decades of government corruption, repression and tyranny, Iranian people have learned the true nature of the regime and do not buy their empty promises and gestures. The people have started to act themselves and do whatever they can to alleviate the suffering caused by the flood. Videos uploaded on the internet for the past few days are the testament to that.

 

Government inaction in Aq qala area

Despite government officials’ visit to the flood areas and giving empty promises to the residents, no tangible and real help has reached the residents of Aq qala city.

“People from 13 years of age to 60 are working day and night without sleep to salvage whatever is left of this devastating flood,” said a resident of Aq qala posted on a video by government-run Asr-e Iran website on March 27, 2019. “We tried our best to create a floodgate solely on our own with no help from the government.”

“We rented an excavator to erect a temporary floodgate,” said another resident. “We paid out of our own pockets, nothing came from the government” he added. 

Members of Majlis, the Iranian regime’s parliament, have been expressing only their concern without a tangible action to alleviate the suffering of the people. “I say that nothing would come out of these sessions. People are besieged by the flood. They don’t even know what has happened to them yet,” said Iranian MP Nabi Hezar-Jeribi.  

 

Regime’s fear of people’s anger and local councils

There is no sight of any government help at the flood-stricken areas. According to videos and reports posted on the social media and based on at the scene PMOI reporters, whatever is done, comes from the people themselves. They have been forming local councils to allocate all the assets at their disposals to confront the consequence of the flood and help their neighbors. The idea of forming these local councils have taken the regime by surprise and frightened them to their bones because when these local councils develop into larger organized movements, they become a threat to the already volatile regime that is on the verge of demise.

The government’s fear stems from the exposure of the unscientific corrupt projects by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, IRGC, that has contributed to this vast devastation in the face of any natural disaster. The IRGC has carried out many projects in different areas aiming at only increasing their own profits without assessing and analyzing the devastating outcome it could have on the environment. One of the concerns of the IRGC and its officials is how to cover up these projects, in order not to explode the already boiling anger of the people. But since the destruction is so vast and the root cause of it so obvious, the only scape root for the government is to put the blame on the shoulder of the other faction.

The IRGC constructed a road on an old riverbed at the entrance of the southern city of Shiraz. This river was a natural flood path, but since there was no flood recorded in that area for years, the IRGC decided to construct a highway there. This, so-called highway, on March 25 turned to the death road for more than 200 commuters. 

“Anybody who has constructed roads or buildings on the dry riverbed in Shiraz is considered guilty,” said former IRGC commander, Shamkhani in order to avert the blame facing directly at the IRGC. “It seems that the road was constructed partly by private sectors and partly by [Rouhani’s] government,” added Shamkhani.  

 

The reason behind the Aq qala flood

Aq Qala is a city of more than 35,000 population located in the north part of the country near the Caspian Sea. This city was one of the worst flood-stricken areas in Iran in recent days. The reason why this city was so devastated and nearly totally destroyed is described by government-run Asr-e Iran website on March 27.

“Previously, the railroad connecting Tehran to Gorgan, another northern city, passed through Torkaman harbor. But in recent years another railroad track was constructed. The new track connects the Torkaman harbor to Inche-boron business border. The flood ran passed the dam, but due to the land topography and the existing riverbeds, the flood should have been diverted from its path and finally run to the Caspian Sea, instead it hits a great wall which was the new railroad track and changes its path to the city of Aq qala drowning the entire city,” according to Asr-e Iran website.

 

Aq qala governor escaped

What was left out from the above corroboration, was the fact that IRGC was behind the construction of the new railroad. But this website had to admit that the local councils acted quickly to remedy the problem.

“Without the knowledge of the governor, local people got to work at 5 o’clock in the morning and brought an excavator and tried to take care of the problem. The governor had already escaped town,” wrote Asr-e Iran website. The irony was that instead of rushing to the aid of the people, the government officials prevented locals from helping others because they feared that as the local councils progressed, the threat to their very existence increase.  

 

Security, the regime’s main concern

The government’s main concern now is not how to help and care for the people whose lives have been shattered by the flood, but to close all the gaps that could endanger their very existence, and the local councils would be just that. As the Mullah Dejkam, Supreme Leader’s representative in Shiraz said when he went to visit the flood areas, the people would curse the regime and force this no good cleric to run away and escape the punches and the shoe throwing.

 

 

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