Iran Press/Iran news: The highest level of alert was declared in Khuzestan province with the situation in six cities declared as critical.
Authorities in Khuzestan ordered evacuations in many regions and cities include Soosangerd, Bostan, Abu Homayze, Kout, Seyyed Naeem and Shoosh, 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 70 people and causing hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of damage to Iranian agriculture, leaving aid agencies struggling to cope.
States of emergency have been declared in several provinces and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has ordered the Armed Forces to join the national rescue and relief operations.
Many people, as part of voluntary groups as well as non-governmental organizations, have been participating in the efforts to ensure a speedy recovery in areas that incurred the most flood damage. 101/211/202
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