Incidents

A sandstorm hit the Iranian city of Zabol, in Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran on Thursday morning that decreased visibility to 200 meters in the airport there.

The death count from the recent flash floods that wreaked havoc on various provinces across Iran has reached 93, with a search operation still underway to find six people who remain missing.

An Afghan national has killed six other Afghans and four Iranians in southeastern Iranian county of Rafsanjan in a stabbing spree following what the police called “personal differences”.

A passenger plane has suffered a malfunction upon landing at the Hasheminejad International Airport in the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad.

Iran is about to wrap up search and rescue operations across the nation after flash floods and landslides hit two dozen provinces in the country two weeks ago, leaving 90 people dead while 8 others still remain missing, according to an official.

An Iranian Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jet on Wednesday morning crashed while taking off from an airbase in the city of Shiraz in southern Iran.

An Iranian search and rescue official says a total of 90 people have so far been confirmed dead in the recent flash flooding in cities across Iran.

The death toll from the recent spate of flooding across Iran has risen to 69 with 45 people still missing, the Crisis Management Organization of Iran says.

The number of deaths from the recent floods across Iran has reached 61.

The number of deaths from the recent floods across Iran has reached 34.

Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have left at last 14 people dead and 11 others missing across Iran in the last few days, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society.

Unseasonal torrential rains have triggered flash floods in eighteen provinces in Iran, the Red Crescent Society said on Thursday, asking citizens to stay away from flood-prone areas for the next five days.

At least six people have been killed, nine others injured and an indefinite number of people have gone missing in northwestern regions of the Iranian capital Tehran after torrential rains ripped through the area.

Iran issues a red alert for heavy rains and subsequent risks of flooding in five provinces mainly located in the southern half of the country, as deadly flash floods have been wreaking havoc in the provinces of Fars and Sistan and Baluchesta in recent days.

Floods triggered by heavy rainfall have hit Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan Province, inundating 8 towns and 33 villages there.

The Iranian police say law enforcement forces have apprehended 5 people for alleged involvement in the shooting to death of the brother of the Metropol Building in Abadan.

The governor of Iran’s Fars Province has declared Sunday a day of mourning in the southern region due to the death of a number of people in a flood there.

Unknown gunmen have reportedly shot dead the brother of the owner of Metropol Building that collapsed in May in Abadan amleaving dozens dead.

An officisl with Iran Red Crescent Society says rescue workers have found the body of the second worker trapped under debris inside a chrome mine in the province of Kerman.

At least 20 people have lost their lives as flash floods triggered by heavy downpours are wreaking havoc in Iran’s southwestern province of Fars.

Two unknown assailants riding a motorbike have sprayed the house of an Iranian MP in Khuzestan Province in southern Iran with bullets.

The Iranian Judiciary has issued an indictment for 20 people in connection with a building collapse that left dozens dead in the southwestern city of Abadan in May.

Fatalities from a 5.6-magnitude earthquake which rocked Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province recently has risen to 7.

The general prosecutor of Iran’s Khuzestan Province announced 7 more people have been arrested in connection with the May 23 collapse of Metropol Building in the city of Abadan min southwestern Iran.

Iranian police say they have arrested three members of a gang of armed muggers who stole the belongings of passengers from a bus on a road in southwest of the country.