Heavy flood has stricken the southern provinces of Bushehr and Fars, causing large scale damages and tremendous devastation since Friday. 
“Torrential rain caused serious damages to five villages in the city of Jahrom, Fars province, and resulted in emergency evacuation of the villages,” Fars news agency quoted MP Mohammad Reza Rezaei as saying. 
The flood caused widespread destruction to 20 villages and destroyed some 1,000 houses in the city of Jahrom alone, Rezaei added.
Unfortunately the roads linking Jahrom to Shiraz are also destroyed, he regretted. 
The rain has also triggered landslide on roads linking Shiraz to Fasa, Firozabad, Jam, Asaluyeh, and Jahrom to Sirjan, Lar and Neyriz. 
Despite what has gone viral in social media there are no reports confirming that any dams has been broken, Rescue and relief Organisation director Morteza Salimi said, adding, but unfortunately many infrastructure and roads are destroyed by the flood. 
Unprecedented Heavy rain has also hit eight cities in Bushehr and caused damages to the roads and infrastructure in the area. The precipitations are twice as much as average amount in some cities of Bushehr. 
In addition to Fars and Bushehr the flood has also inundated other provinces of Isfahan, Ilam, Tehran, North Khorasan, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan, Bushehr, Kerman, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, and Hormozgan and some 4,000 individuals received rescue and relief services. 
So far rescue and relief forces have succeeded in pumping water out of 893 houses and releasing 81 cars stuck in the flood in the aforementioned provinces. 
According to the reports so far a cyclist who didn’t pay attention to the warnings lost his life in Qasr-e Qomsheh in Shiraz, Fars province, and one has gone missing in Bastak, Hormozgan province. 
Food stuff, tents and blankets are distributed among the flood victims and they all are accommodated. 
Relentless rain in southwest Iran unleashed flash floods that swept away hundreds of houses and raged through villages. 
In Iran’s south, flooding has taken over entire neighborhoods in the city of Shiraz and eight counties belonging to Bushehr Province. 
Meteorologists forecast that the skies will clear over Gilan by Saturday night but say the province is then expected to be gripped by blizzard for the next two days. 
Fars News Agency cited the governor of Bushehr’s Dashtestan County as saying that flooding had claimed the life of a young female from a village there. 
On Friday, Iranian First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri issued directives to relevant disaster management authorities for the provision of prompt relief services to those afflicted in Bushehr and Fars provinces, where Shiraz is the capital. 
Across the two provinces, as well as the western Iranian Kurdistan Province and the northern West and East Azerbaijan Provinces, many villages were, meanwhile, isolated by accumulated floodwaters.
A man taking a selfie after an Iranian dam burst was among at least seven people killed as floods, avalanches and dust storms gripped the country, IRNA reported on Saturday. 
The dam burst flooded parts of Jiroft, damaging dozens of homes. 
In the north, at least five people have been killed in avalanches over the past two weeks as up to two meters of snow fell in the Zagros and Alborz mountains. 
Officials in Khuzestan Province said the dust level in the air was 18 times the normal levels. 
Long power cuts hit the cities of Ahvaz, Khorramshahr and Abadan as the combination of dust and up to 98% humidity played havoc with the electricity grid. 
Fars News Agency cited the governor of Bushehr’s Dashtestan city as saying that flooding had claimed the life of a young female from a village there. 
Despite what has gone viral in social media there are no reports confirming that any dams has been broken, Rescue and relief Organisation director Morteza Salimi said, adding, but unfortunately many infrastructure and roads are destroyed by the flood. 
Iran's Red Crescent Society said it has provided relief aid for more than 47,000 people in 11 provinces across the country. 
A man taking a selfie after an Iranian dam burst was among at least seven people killed as floods, avalanches and dust storms gripped the country, IRNA reported on Saturday. 
“Torrential rain caused serious damages to five villages in the city of Jahrom, Fars province, and resulted in emergency evacuation of the villages,” Fars news agency quoted MP Mohammad Reza Rezaei as saying.
