Two Weeks After Floods, Highly Critical Situation in Iran Remains
It was a real tragedy for villagers and farmers in Dasht-e Azadegan County, Khouzistan Province (southwestern Iran),” said the director of the County’s Cooperative for Agriculture and Natural Resources, a state organization responsible for agricultural land management. “Tens of thousands of hectares of agricultural land have been swallowed up and destroyed and all livestock is dying,” added Hossein Marmazi in an interview with the Semi-Official Press Agency, ILNA, on 6 April 2019. This director complained about the incompetence and laxity of the authorities, saying that they were content to give orders to evacuate the towns in the county, “even though it was not that simple! Tens of thousands of people live in each of these cities.” “These people don’t know where to go! They do not know what to do when they have no money with the prices that are devastating. Who will house them? If they don’t move it’s because they have nowhere to go.” Marmazi revealed that experts from his cooperati...