Pol Dokhtar Representative: After the flood, people have nothing but the clothes on their backs
Hamid Reza Kazemi, a representative of Pol-e-Dokhtar in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, described the situation of the people in the flooded areas of Lorestan and said that the people have lost everything.
"They have nothing but the clothes on their backs, and more than 30,000 people in my constituency don't even have shoes," he said on Sunday, April 8.
He also said that due to heavy rainfall and flooding, half of the towns of Moqallan and Pol-e Dokhtar and their villages have been destroyed, with 10 villages completely wiped out.
In recent days, numerous videos of people criticizing the government agencies' delays and shortcomings in providing relief to flood victims have been published on social media.
US officials have repeatedly warned against the mismanagement of Iran's natural resources and the unnecessary and unplanned construction of dams aimed at lining the pockets of corrupt officials of the Islamic Republic regime, citing it as one of the main factors behind various environmental crises, including devastating floods and unprecedented droughts.
In May of last year, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, while announcing support for the Iranian people, said that "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 US Special Representative for Iran, also stated that after the revolution, six hundred dams were built in Iran "without any environmental assessment," and that the Islamic Republic regime had destroyed the country's water resources through mismanagement over the past forty years.
Source: Voice of America
