Poldokhtar Representative: After the Flood, People Have Nothing But the Clothes on Their Backs

Hamidresa Kazemi, the representative of Poldokhtar in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, describing the situation of people in the flood-affected areas of Lorestan, said that people have lost everything.

On Sunday, April 8, he said: “They have nothing except the clothes on their bodies, and more than 30,000 people in my constituency don’t even have shoes.”

He also stated that as a result of heavy rainfall and flooding, half of the cities of Moumahan and Poldokhtar and their villages have been destroyed, with 10 villages completely wiped out.

In recent days, multiple videos of people criticizing the negligence and shortcomings of government agencies in providing relief to flood victims have been published on social media.

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, citing it as one of the main factors in various environmental crises, including devastating floods and unprecedented droughts.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in May of last year, while expressing support for the Iranian people, said: “We are witnessing financial and environmental crises in Iran. Corruption has engulfed the country. The regime is stealing from its own people.”

Brian Hook, the U.S. Special Representative for Iran, also pointed out that after the revolution, six hundred dams have been built in Iran “without any environmental assessment,” declaring that the Islamic Republic regime has mismanaged and destroyed the country’s water resources over the past forty years.

Source: Voice of America