Epic floods, Iran

Twenty-five of Iran’s 31 provinces are now inundated by massive flooding that has plunged cities into crisis and caused the military to respond. It took a week for Tehran to come to grips with the devastation and declare a national emergency.
Khuzestan province now faces a new deluge of rain, local reports indicate, with 55 villages having been evacuated. This is after provinces in the North were critiqued for not planning ahead.