{"id":216239,"date":"2020-04-14T18:49:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=216239"},"modified":"2023-01-23T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T12:41:50","slug":"iran-hit-by-floods-as-coronavirus-crisis-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/iran-hit-by-floods-as-coronavirus-crisis-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Hit by Floods as Coronavirus Crisis Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_216240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216240\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-floods-file-photo\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-floods-file-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Iran Hit by Floods as Coronavirus Crisis Continues \" width=\"800\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-floods-file-photo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-floods-file-photo-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-floods-file-photo-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-floods-file-photo-696x351.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran floods &#8211; file photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The epicentere of Iran\u2019s coronavirus crisis <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is now besieged<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0by floods, with many vehicles swept away and many factories and stores filled with muddy water.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span>The floods in Qom, central Iran, come just one day <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-floods-qom-covid19-20200413\" rel=\"noopener\">after floods<\/a> hit Khorasan Razavi Province in northeast Iran. <span data-contrast=\"auto\">The\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khorasan<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Razavi\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">floods have hit all cities in the province, blocking 14 roads to various villages and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">four<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0main roads between cities, with\u00a0the majority of\u00a0damage occurring in the cities of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Davarzan<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sabzevar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Javin,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Joghtay<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Two people have died in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rashtkhar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khaf<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, while two people are reported missing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">April 12 &#8211; Salami, Razavi Khorasan Province, northeast <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><br \/>Recent floods are devastating the lives of locals and regime authorities are not providing adequate aid.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qJ61SRyrR3\">https:\/\/t.co\/qJ61SRyrR3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EJNNAXCHfF\">pic.twitter.com\/EJNNAXCHfF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1249631733072285696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One local said: \u201cDue to strong floods in the village of Zardab Balakhaf, a 31-year old man and a 13-year old child were washed away. There is no sign of them. A 27-year old man being washed away was saved by local villagers and was later sent to a hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Severe damage is being reported by locals across the province, with those living in villages near Davarzan forced to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While in Qazvin Province, northwest Iran, floods destroyed Boin Zahra\u2019s famous Sagesabad bridge. The floods, which began on Saturday, hit villages around Takestan, including Asfarvarin, Dowlatabad, Kahak, Yahya-abad, Ali Khamenei, Saj, Rakan, and Lazjerd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the earlier floods, 29 cities across the 16 provinces of Isfahan, Tehran, Alborz, South and North Khorasan, Semnan, Qom, Qazvin, Kerman, Kermanshah,\u202fGolestan,\u202fGilan, Lorestan, and Yazd were badly affected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">These floods left four dead, including two children, with the situation made worse by lightning\u202fstorms, hail, and sleet, which are causing additional damage to orchards and\u202ffarms. Worse still was the rupturing of a natural gas pipe in Rudak\u202fin Buin Zahra County of\u202fKhorasan Razavi\u202f Province, due to the heavy rains and rising water levels. This actually led to a major fire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The fear is that, as we\u2019ve seen in the past, there may well be mudslides in the affected areas, especially near the roads of\u202fChaharmahal\u202f&amp; Bakhtiari Province, where heavy rain, snowfall, lightning, and strong winds are predicted. In fact, 28 roads in the province are blocked already.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And this will not stop anytime soon, with floods forecast to hit 20 provinces over the next few days. This will hurt the Iranian people who are already suffering from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/actual-number-of-coronavirus-fatalities-compared-with-iran-regimes-figures\/\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus\u202fpandemic<\/a> and the lack of help provided by the Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader\u202fAli Khamenei\u202fand President\u202fHassan Rouhani, who want to kickstart the country\u2019s economy, something that will only lead to more deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The epicentere of Iran&rsquo;s coronavirus crisis is now besieged&nbsp;by floods, with many vehicles swept away and many factories and stores filled with muddy water.&nbsp;The floods in Qom, central Iran, come [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":216240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[186],"class_list":{"0":"post-216239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-coronavirus"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran Hit by Floods as Coronavirus Crisis Continues - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The epicentere of Iran\u2019s coronavirus crisis is now besieged\u00a0by floods, with many vehicles swept away and many factories and stores filled with muddy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/iran-hit-by-floods-as-coronavirus-crisis-continues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran Hit by Floods as Coronavirus Crisis Continues - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The epicentere of Iran\u2019s coronavirus crisis is now besieged\u00a0by floods, with many vehicles swept away and many factories and stores filled with muddy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/iran-hit-by-floods-as-coronavirus-crisis-continues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-14T17:49:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-23T12:41:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-floods-file-photo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"403\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mahmoud Hakamian\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mahmoud Hakamian\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/news\\\/society\\\/iran-hit-by-floods-as-coronavirus-crisis-continues\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/news\\\/society\\\/iran-hit-by-floods-as-coronavirus-crisis-continues\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mahmoud Hakamian\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ae412f6365d3323a9490e02514c5702c\"},\"headline\":\"Iran Hit by Floods as Coronavirus Crisis Continues\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-14T17:49:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-23T12:41:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/news\\\/society\\\/iran-hit-by-floods-as-coronavirus-crisis-continues\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":435,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/news\\\/society\\\/iran-hit-by-floods-as-coronavirus-crisis-continues\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/04\\\/Iran-floods-file-photo.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Iran Culture &amp; 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