Incidents

Heavy rains have triggered a flood in the northern Iranian city of Astara, along the Caspian Sea.

A gas leak at a refinery in the South Pars field in southern Iran has left one person dead and two injured.

Rescues teams found the dead bodies of the miners who were trapped in a mine in the central Iranian city of Damghan, after it collapsed in an explosion on Sunday evening.

A woman has been arrested in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran for killing 7 elderly men.

A petrochemical plant in southern Iran caught fire on Wednesday.

An oil pipeline blew up in a village near Bandar Khamir in southern Iranian Hormozgan Province along the Persian Gulf, in the early hours of Monday, according to local sources.

A huge explosion inside a building in Shahre Rey, south of the capital Tehran, has destroyed much of an old 3-story building.

The spokesperson of the Tehran Fire Department says the fifth body, buried under the debris of a semi-finished and unauthorized building in the Iranian capital, has been discovered.

Firefighters have managed to put out the flames that were raging in the forest near Marivan, in the western Iranian province of Kordestan.

Some 300 hectares of forests in the western Iranian town of Marivan are still engulfed by wildfires as helicopters keep flying over the area to douse the flames.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale was registered to the southeast of the Iranian capital of Tehran, putting local rescue organizations on alarm.

Gohar Petro Refinery factory in the western Iranian province of Lorestan has been engulfed in fire.

Footage has appeared of the moment a part of the Alborz mountain range collapses along the famed Road 77 in northern Iran.

An aircraft used for training pilots has crashed in Iran’s Karaj near the capital Tehran, killing the trainee and the coach.

Firefighters have put out a fire that raged on for 15 hours in the Miankaleh Sahra wildlife reserve of Iran’s Mazandaran Province.

At least 70 Iranian pilgrims have been hospitalized after a fire engulfed Qasr al-Shafa’a Hotel in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf.

The Director General of Mazandaran Governorate’s Crisis Management Department says 10 hectares of the Miankaleh Peninsula in northern Iran are engulfed in fire.

Local authorities say that a series of wildfires that had been burning in forests in Iran’s western Kurdistan Province have been successfully contained.

Wildfires are still burning in forests in Iran’s western Kurdistan Province, where local authorities have planned aerial firefighting operations.

A dust storm packing winds of up to 126 kph hit the city of Zabol, in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, in the wee hours of Friday.

A strong storm has battered Sistan in southeastern Iran, greatly reducing visibility there.

An official in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province says around 600 people have sought medical help following a dust storm with strong winds hitting parts of the province.

Iranian security forces respond to a hostage crisis at a drug store in the province of Shiraz, setting the captives free unharmed and killing the assailant in the operation.

The southeastern Iranian city of Zabol has been hit by strong winds of up to 112 kilometers per hour since early on Monday.

A mob has attacked the site of a live concert in the southern Iranian city of Sirjan, Kerman Province, vandalizing the place and injuring two security guards with knives and machetes.