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“Over 400 armored, engineering and transportation systems of the IRGC Ground Force are conducting relief and rescue operations in flooded areas of Khuzestan province,” IRGC Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said on Saturday.

Also, Commander of the IRGC’s Airborne Unit Brigadier General Mohammad Rahmani said that his forces and engineers are detecting the flood-hit areas from air.

Meantime, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami underlined the Armed Forces’ good management of the flood crisis in the country, saying, “The Army, IRGC, Law Enforcement Police and defense ministry have shared the tasks, strenuously worked day and night and used all relief equipment, including planes, helicopters, personnel-carriers and technical and engineering equipment, and they could control the crisis resulting from the floods very well.”

Over three weeks after the start of the unprecedented heavy rains and floods in Iran, many dams in the country are swelling with rising rivers.

In Isfahan province near the borders with Markazi and Lorestan provinces, Golpayegan Dam was announced full on March 31 and the people residing in the areas near the downstream of the dam were ordered to evacuate their homes and keep distance from areas on the river banks.

In Khuzestan province, Karkheh Dam has been discharging water in the past week to manage the huge amount of inflow it is receiving due to heavy rains in Lorestan, Khuzestan, and Kuhkiluyeh and Buyerahmad provinces.

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