In recent days, flash floods have wreaked havoc in hundreds of Iranian communities, leaving a horrifying trail of devastation and death in their wake. According to estimates, the death toll has surpassed 100. As per Mehdi Valipour, head of the regime’s Red Crescent, the official death toll is 61, with 32 others missing. The Head of the regime’s Crisis Management is warning that floods have been reported in 385 areas of at least 111 cities across 27 of Iran’s 31 provinces.

 

In three cities in the province of Fars, there have already been more than 23 casualties. Hundreds of people died in March 2019 as a result of severe flooding in the Fars provinces and other regions of the nation, just before the Persian New Year, but the regime has done nothing to avert this crisis ever since.

 

Floods have swept through 28 Iranian provinces, including West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Isfahan, Bushehr, Qazvin, Fars, Kerman, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad, Charmahal Bakhtiari, Zanjan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Khuzestan, South Khorasan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, Hormozgan, and Yazd, as a result of recent heavy rains The 17 provinces of Iran sustained significant casualties and material devastation.

Reports by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK Iran), indicate that Large parts of south-western Iran have been badly hit by flooding, in particular in the province of Bushehr.

Heavy floods ravaged the city of Qom, Central Iran on Monday, one day after floods in Razavi Khorasan damaged every city in the northeastern province. The Qom floods washed away vehicles and filled stores and factories with muddy water, further devastating a city that has already been dealt a brutal blow by the coronavirus.

Poor planning and installation of necessary flood prevention infrastructure by the mullahs’ regime in Iran’s flood-stricken rural regions have led to enormous economic damage. 50 trillion Rials worth of damage has been estimated to have been done to the Kerman region alone, in South Central Iran.

The people of Iran have been dealing with the effects of the regime’s mismanagement for years. Corruption at all levels of leadership in Iran and malign policies have caused some major crises. Even natural disasters have been worsened by the regime’s destruction or inaction.

The people of Iran are living in uncertain times. There is an atmosphere of fear in the country because of the Coronavirus outbreak. Not only are they having to contend with a virus that can be deadly to many, but they are also dealing with the consequences of the regime’s inability to manage the situation adequately.

Severe flooding swept through Southern Iran last weekend, killing eleven people and adding another layer to the humanitarian crisis unfolding across the country as the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continues to mount.

Floods have yet again hit Iran causing tragedy for all those in the water’s path and it’s especially devastating that it’s affecting the same areas as were flooded in March 2019. But it brings up the perfectly reasonable question of why the regime has not done anything in the past year to prevent these floods?

In last March’s flood, much of Lorestan and Ilam provinces were affected, with bridges destroyed, villages buried beneath water, and communications cut off. The regime vowed that the Revolutionary Guards’ (IRGC) Khatam-al Anbiya Base, would rebuild the area with its commander, Saeed Mohammad, and the IRGC’s aerospace commander, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, visiting Ilam on March 8, 2019, to examine the needs there.

It may not surprise you to learn that Khatam Al-Anbiya is actually one of supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s main looting institutions, so the promise about rebuilding those areas, including the erection of flood dams, were not fulfilled.

They basically just looted the Iranian people’s wealth by doing sub-par work and pocketing the additional money. That’s why the floods were able to damage and destroy the exactly same cities – Poldokhtar, Mamoulan, Khoramabad, and Kouhdasht.

By destroying the environment, the mullahs have worsened the floods, doing nothing to help the victims. They squandered the nation’s wealth to pursue nuclear & missile projects & warmongering, leaving our compatriots defenseless in the face of natural disasters #Iran pic.twitter.com/pRcPukObTm

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 13, 2020

Meisam Ghadami, deputy of the Directorate General of Road Administration and Transport, said on February 27 that, regarding the re-building of bridges destroyed in the March floods, there was a “lack of funds” and a desperate need to “speed up traffic in the area”. That’s why the Department of Roads and Transport “temporarily” installed metal decks of bridges at the same locations.

While the people of Sistan and Baluchestan freeze in treetops, the corrupt regime spends millions funding terrorist proxies in the regionhttps://t.co/NAGSkfeB62#Iran #floods #MEK @USAdarFarsi pic.twitter.com/xPyqhzu0G9

— MEK Iran (Mujahedin-e Khalq) (@MEK_Iran) January 26, 2020

He admited : “Damages piled up, promises of spring reached summer and were forgotten in autumn. Now in winter, the Lorestan flood victims are again in pain and suffering and the only thing to do is to hope that the flood will not hit Lorestan in the spring since until now the floods and rainfalls have not wakened up government officials.”

The damages caused in March’s floods were tens of billions of tomans’ worth to urban and rural infrastructures, residential homes, the agricultural sector, and more. The majority of this has not been compensated and the recent February flood has added another 2 billion tomans in damages.

It is clear that the Khatam-al Anbiya has profited from the Iranian people’s suffering, using substandard materials and shoddy labor. Worse still, the stage is set for them to do it again. This is the regime’s regular playbook and it is why they should be overthrown by the people.