Three cars were swept away by the flooding while it also caused an outage in 7 villages.
Authorities say efforts are underway to restore power in those villages.
There are no reports of casualties in the flood-hit areas yet though.
Earlier, flash floods killed dozens in Estahban in Far Province. A number of people remain missing.
Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, while visiting the flood-hit areas, offered condolences to the families of the flood victims.
“The Islamic Republic never walked away from the negotiating table. It was the Westerners who, while the talks were underway, caused a crisis in the negotiations by issuing a resolution [against the Islamic Republic] at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors,” Raisi said on Tuesday.
He said in order for the talks to succeed, the opposing side needs to have the necessary will.
“The position of the Islamic Republic of Iran is logical and rational. And it is obvious that if the opposing side, too, acts logically and rationally, the negotiations can bear fruit.”
Iran has been indirectly negotiating with the United States since 2020 to explore whether Washington can return to the Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA.
The implantation of the deal — to which America was originally a party — has been hindered since the US unilaterally abandoned the agreement in 2018 under former President Donald Trump.
In June, and as the negotiations were effectively stuck, the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution criticizing Iran for what they called not cooperating with the agency.
Earlier, Iran had switched off two of the IAEA surveillance cameras which it had voluntarily allowed as a gesture of goodwill.
President Raisi also hailed his own administration for diplomatically engaging with Iran’s neighbors, a policy that he said had led to the country’s balance of trade with neighboring states becoming positive.
Reza Zamani, the director general of Gilan’s Environment Protection Organization, said on Tuesday that seven counties were located in the drainage basin of the lagoon and more residential buildings were being licensed in the area in recent years.
“Every year, 380,000 square meters of sewage and 400,000 square meters of wastewater are channeled into the lagoon,” Zamani added.
“Daily, 15 tons of refuse is dumped there.”
Anzali Lagoon is one of the largest natural habitats of different species of animals in Iran.
Large flocks of various migratory birds travelling from other countries make a stop in the lagoon every year. The body of water’s level of moisture and volume of water is also the highest compared to all other lagoons in Iran.
Days earlier, officials said a large number of fish in Anzali Lagoon had died, due to what tests later showed were unprecedented heat, the dwindling of the water level in the lagoon, and a resultant reduction in oxygen levels in the water.
Significant differences between the sides remain, however, according to two of the sources, including the Taliban’s refusal to replace the bank’s top political appointees, one of whom is under US sanctions as are several of the movement’s leaders.
Some experts stated such a move would help restore confidence in the institution by insulating it from interference by the militant group that seized power a year ago but which foreign governments do not recognise.
Freeing up cash may not solve all of Afghanistan’s financial troubles, but it would provide relief for a country hit by a slump in foreign aid, persistent drought and an earthquake in June that killed 1,000 people. Millions of Afghans are facing a second winter without enough to eat.
While the Taliban do not reject the concept of a trust fund, they oppose a US proposal for third-party control of the fund that would hold and disburse returned reserves, noted a Taliban government source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The United States has been in talks with Switzerland and other parties on the creation of a mechanism that would include the trust fund, disbursements from which would be decided with the help of an international board, according to a US source who also declined to be named in order to discuss the matter.
A possible model could be the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, a World Bank-administered fund created to get donations of foreign development assistance to Kabul, the US source added.
“No agreement has been reached yet,” said Shah Mehrabi, an Afghan-American economics professor who is on the Afghan central bank’s supreme council.
The US State Department and Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs declined to comment. The Afghan central bank did not respond to requests for comment.
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West, speaking at an Afghanistan-focused conference in Uzbekistan on Tuesday, welcomed the dialogue.
“We have made it clear that a future recapitalisation of the (Afghanistan) central bank and the Afghan financial system is possible provided that reasonable and serious steps are taken to professionalise the central bank, to enhance its AML/CFT (anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing) architecture and its independence,” he stated.
Some $9 billion in reserves have been held outside Afghanistan, including $7 billion in the United States, since the Taliban overran Kabul last August as US-led forces withdrew after 20 years of fighting the militants.
Foreign governments and rights groups have accused the Taliban of abuses including extrajudicial killings during and after the insurgency, and the movement has curtailed women’s freedoms since regaining power.
The international community wants the group to improve its record on women’s and other rights before officially recognising it.
The Taliban have promised to investigate alleged killings.
According to the figures released by the Iran Migration Observatory, 37.2 percent of students with Olympiad titles, 25.5 percent of members of Iran’s National Elites Foundation, and 15.2 percent of students who have secured the first 1,00 spots in the country’s highly competitive annual university entrance exam, have chosen to migrate to another country.
According to the center, this statistical data show that elite students who succeeded in Olympiads were the group with the highest scientific migration in at least the past decade.
Shahrvand Newspaper that has published the report, adds families spend billions to get their children to Russia, Malaysia, and Turkey to study medicine and dentistry.
The daily caseload was 11,035.
The Iranian health ministry has stepped up its vaccination drive to again bring the Covid pandemic under control.
All vaccination centers are working extra hours to inoculate people who have failed to receive their booster shots of the jab.
Iranian authorities are urging people to get their boosters as soon as possible, saying it’s naïve to think Covid is over or will go away.
According to the health ministry, Iran’s total Covid death toll stands at 141,758.
Till some weeks ago, the country experienced zero deaths while dozens of new cases were registered daily.
The worst hit country by the pandemic is the US where the disease has killed nearly a million people.
Ali Salajegheh, the head of Iran’s Department of Environment said a meeting between officials with Iran’s Ministry of Energy and their Afghan counterparts hit snag after disagreements over each side’s share.
Iran has been trying to persuade the Taliban officials to open the gates of Kamal Khan Dam in the Hirmand River, known as the Helmand River in Afghanistan, and release the flow of water to drought-hit Hamoun Lake in southeast Iran.
Davood Mirshekar, Director General of Environmental Protection Office of Sistan and Baluchistan Province bordering Afghanistan, said, “Unfortunately, the Afghan side has bypassed Iran and has diverted the Kamal Khan Dam in the Hirmand River directly to Godzareh basin without considering the environmental issues and the share of water.”
Hamoun is the largest freshwater lake in Iran, directly linked the biodiversity in Sistan and Baluchestan and the people’s livelihood in the province.
Constructing of dams over the Hirmand River has heavily restricted the flow of water to the Islamic Republic.
Ehsan Khandouzi told a press conference on Tuesday that Turkey, China, and India are next in line to move away from the dollar in their trade exchanges with Iran.
Officials say Iran and Russia have prepared the ground to do away with the dollar, which is used as a political tool for pressure and domination, to cushion their economies against ‘unjust’ US-speared Western embargoes.
The development comes days after Iran launched trading in the rial-ruble in its foreign exchange market to further bolster its economic relations with Russia and diminish other foreign currencies’ role in the Iranian market.
Khandouzi also said Iran’s revenues from the sale of oil and condensates exports and its tax income in the first 4 months of the current Iranian year (starting March 21) have grown by 580% and 200% respectively, compared to the same period last year.
“As a result of the increase in oil exports and our new finances’ forex conversion price, we noticed a 580% boost in the treasury’s earnings from the export of oil and condensate in the first 4 months of this year,” Khandouzi said.
The Iranian economy minister also said the country’s budget resources have grown 48 percent compared to last year, a major leap to help cut the budget deficit.
Iran says it has come up with ways to bypass US sanctions, re-imposed in 2018, to export crude oil.
The members of the Security Council expressed their deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims and to the Government of Iraq and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, wished a speedy and full recovery to those who were injured, and expressed their support for the Iraqi authorities in their investigations.
They urged all Member States to cooperate actively with the Government of Iraq and all other relevant authorities in support of these investigations.
The members of the UNSC reiterated their support for the independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, democratic process and prosperity of Iraq.
Iraqi officials claimed that Turkey has carried out the strike against the Iraqi hill village of Parakh in the Zakho district in Dohuk province, killing at least nine tourists, including children and women, and wounding more than 20 others.
Authorities in Iraq insist that the attack was carried out by Turkish forces and that they are responsible for the deaths and injuries of Iraqi civilians, while Ankara says the country’s forces did not attack civilians.
The Iranian men’s team stood in the second place by gaining 681 scores, just one less than the score gained by the host country.
Kyrgyzstan stood in the third place by gaining 624 scores.
Winning 12 medals, including 4 golds, 3 silvers and 5 bronzes, Iran’s teen weightlifting team also ranked seventh in the Asian Championships held in Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent.
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