Araz News: While Tehran’s Plasco collapse is still at the forefront of Iran’s media coverage, several parts of Sistan-Baluchistan province faced with heavy flood disaster during these days. Unfortunately, negligible media coverage of this incident and Inadequate first aid shown discrimination of Iran’s regime against non-Persian area clearly.

According to the last report, 149 urban and rural areas of six provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan, Hormozgan Province, Fars, Kerman, South Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi have been affected by floods. Many residents have been forced to leave their home. Roads are blocked as a result of the disaster.

On 27 Jan, Hossein Ali Shahriari, who is represents of  Zahedan in the Islamic consultative assembly said: “relief work and service to the people of Sistan and Baluchestan is not sufficient and hundreds homes collapsed in this area.”

Iran’s media and provincial governments say that flood disaster did not cause any damage to people of the province.

He added: “when the government says the country’s poorest people located  in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, according to last statistics, how it is possible to say that flood disaster did not cause any damage to people who are the country’s poorest people.”

Morteza Salimi, head of the Iranian crisis management reported that more than 4900 people have emergency accommodation, closures of 800 schools and 15 villages main roads are blocked in the incident.

It’s not the first time that Iran regime medias have silenced against the incidents and events which happened at non Persian areas.

Here are some examples just happened in South Azerbaijan regions:

• Dec 25, 2016(Tabriz is the most polluted city in Iran) Tabriz’s air pollution index was 170 PSI due to heavy particle in the air which caused the most polluted city in Iran.

• November 25, 2016 (Semnan -Tabriz train crash) at least 44 people were killed and more than 103 injured.

• November 12, 2016 (increasing the rate of birth defects in Tabriz) Mr. Ahmad Alirezabeighi, PM told the parliament that the filters used in refineries are poor and the resulting air pollution in some areas is causing birth defects.

• June 30, 2016 (14 million South Azerbaijani lives in danger due to drying of Urmia lake) Mr. Hadi Bahadari  PM emphasized low budget in restoring Lake Urmia and 14 million South Azerbaijani people will be suffering from desertification of Lake Urmia and significant health risk reported.

• 12 August 2012 (Qaradagh earthquake) more than 250 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured. More than 100 villages suffered damage.

BY-H.A