Heaviest rains in century bring floods to Caspian Sea coast

Tehran (AFP) Sept 19, 2023

Flash floods have injured 20 people in northern Iran, after what officials described as the region's heaviest rains in a century, Iranian media reported. The rains have battered the cities of Astara and Talesh, on the Caspian Sea coast near the border with Azerbaijan since Sunday, the reports said. "Heavy rains ... have fallen over Astara which have not been seen in 100 years," Gilan pro