Latest Flood Death Toll in Iran According to Emergency Organization: 57 Dead and 478 Injured
The devastating floods that have affected more than 15 Iranian provinces, including Golestan, Lorestan, and southern Iranian provinces, have so far caused extensive financial and human losses. According to statistics from Iran’s Emergency Organization, as of Tuesday, April 2, 57 people have lost their lives and 478 have been injured.
Mojtaba Khaldi, spokesman for Iran’s Emergency Organization, told IRNA news agency: Among the deceased, 22 were in Shiraz, seven in Golestan, five in Mazandaran, three in North Khorasan, three in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, and five in Lorestan. Additionally, one person each lost their lives due to flooding in the provinces of Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, Hamadan, Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Zanjan, Qazvin, and Ilam.
The Emergency Organization spokesman also stated regarding the number of injured from the floods since the beginning of the year 1398 until now, that the total number of flood casualties so far is 478 people, of whom 430 were transferred to hospitals and 19 are still hospitalized.
U.S. officials have repeatedly warned about Iran’s mismanagement of natural resources and unnecessary, unplanned dam construction aimed at filling the pockets of corrupt officials of the Islamic Republic regime, attributing it to the main factors behind various environmental crises, including devastating floods and unprecedented droughts.
Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, had stated in May of last year while expressing support for the Iranian people that “We are witnessing financial and environmental crises in Iran. Corruption has gripped the country. The regime steals from its own people.”
Additionally, Brian Hook, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Affairs, noting that 600 dams have been built “without any environmental assessment” since the revolution in Iran, announced that the Islamic Republic regime has mismanaged and destroyed the country’s water resources over the past forty years.
Source: Voice of America
