Iran Press/Iran news: Iran’s Education Minister, Mohammad Bathaie said that we deny UNICEF claims about Iranian children who affected by massive floods.
According to Iran Press report, UNICEF official claimed that devastating flooding in three quarters of Iran’s provinces has affected 10 million people, of whom 2 million are severely impacted and 500,000 displaced--half of them are children.
Bathaie said on Twitter," Apparently, the UNICEF office in Iran has released statistics of Iranian children who affected by massive floods, which is completely incorrect."
"Except for a few cases in Khuzestan province where it is not possible to hold a classroom because some of the flood-hit households have been settled in the schools, students' classes have been set up in other regions and provinces on the initiative of dear teachers," Bathaie stated.
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.101/202/213
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