Accidents and Natural Disasters

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces has ordered all forces to conduct aid operations in most cities of west-central province of Lorestan, which has been hit hardly by fresh floods over past days.

Head of the Relief and Rescue Department of the Iranian Red Crescent Society says at least 23 Iranian provinces are still struggling with floods.

All public facilities and state bodies along with Armed Forces have been mobilized for dealing with the floods that hit and are expected to hit various parts of the country to ensure people’s safety.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed deep regret over the damages and casualties caused by the recent flooding in various Afghan cities and regions.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has sent condolences and offered help over the tragic flash floods in Iran which have so far claimed the lives of 26 people.

At least 19 people have been killed during the Monday flash floods in the city of Shiraz in Fars province, southern Iran, as a fresh wave of flooding is engulfing several parts of the country, from north to south and from west to east.

Iranian armed forces and civil bodies have been deployed in northern Iran as flash floods seriously affected people of Golestan and Mazandaran provinces, leaving behind casualties and making thousands displaced.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has offered condolences to China over a deadly explosion in a chemical plant, which killed and wounded dozens of people.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed deep regret over the deadly sinking of a ferry in Iraq's Tigris River, in which tens of people, mostly women and children, drowned.

Several people have sustained injuries after a 90-metre cargo vessel under the flag of Comoros capsized and sank on Tuesday at Shahid Rajaee port of the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas near the Persian Gulf.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has offered condolences to the nation and government of Zimbabwe over the deaths of a number of Zimbabwean people after a heavy storm hit the African country.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed regret over the crash of an Ethiopian passenger plane, which claimed the lives of all its passengers and crew members.

An Iranian copter operated by the country’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has gone down in the southwest of the country during a rescue operation, leaving five people dead.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed regret over the deadly derailment of a train in Cairo's main station, which killed and wounded dozens of people.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has expressed deep regret over a deadly fire in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, which killed and injured scores of people.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed deep regret over the recent tragic incident in Zimbabwe's Battlefields mine, which has so far killed tens of people.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Bahram Qassemi has expressed regret over the recent tornado and storm in Cuba which left several dead and hundreds injured and caused huge damages.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has sympathized with the Mexican government and nation over the heart-clinching incident in a fuel pipeline blast in the Latin country which left tens of people dead, injured and unaccounted for.

Boeing 707 cargo plane with 16 people on board has crash-landed at an airport near Karaj in the vicinity of capital Tehran.

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution has expressed condolences on the death of a number of people in a bus crash in Tehran.

A bus carrying students has rolled out of the road at an Iranian university in northwest Tehran on Tuesday, leaving at least seven dead and over 20 injured.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed deep regret over a deadly tsunami in Indonesia's Sunda Strait, which has killed dozens of people and left many others missing and homeless.

Officials in Iran’s Semnan province say they are going to boost traffic safety across the province by making the roads ‘musical’.

Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani has called for all-out efforts to provide assistance to those affected by a powerful earthquake in western Kermanshah Province, which left over 700 people injured.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed regret over the recent floods in various Iraqi cities, which left dozens of people killed and missing, and caused extensive damages.