Iran Press/Iran news: Authorities in Khuzestan ordered evacuations in many regions and cities include Shadegan and it's 26 villages.
States of emergency have been declared in Khuzestan and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes, Iran Press reported.
Three major floods have hit Iran in the past two weeks with unprecedented rainfall, in a country which is mostly arid, hot and dry with normally little rainfall, and a country which has endured a decades long drought until this year.
Exceptionally heavy rains since March 19 have flooded some 1,900 cities, towns, and villages, killing 76 people and causing hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of damage to Iranian agriculture, leaving aid agencies struggling to cope.101/202
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