Iranian Majlis speaker Ali Larijani issued a message on Sunday offering his condolences to his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin over the deadly floods in southern Russia, Mehr News reported.
According to Reuters, a Russian Interior Ministry crisis centre said that 144 people had been killed in the flooding after two months' average rainfall fell in a few hours on Friday night.
Most of the dead were drowned, many of them elderly people caught unawares as they slept.