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Strong dust storms and hurricanes expected in Iran in coming days

Iran Materials 14 September 2012 10:48 (UTC +04:00)
Strong dust storms and hurricanes are expected to hit Iranian provinces in the coming couple of days, Mehr reported.
Strong dust storms and hurricanes expected in Iran in coming days

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Strong dust storms and hurricanes are expected to hit Iranian provinces in the coming couple of days, Mehr reported.

According to General director of Meteorology forecasts Abdul-Reza Umidwar Shahri, over the next three days in seven provinces of Iran strong dust winds are expected.

In other two provinces there will be hurricanes.

He said that due to wind speed increase in Iraq, the cyclone moves on to Iran, causing heavy dust storms.

In recent years, dust storms coming from western neighboring countries are drastically increased dust storms and affecting western and even central part of Iran. This phenomenon is caused a lot of environmental and socio-economic problems.

On Friday and Saturday strong dust storms will hit the Iranian provinces of Kermanshah, Ilam, Khuzestan, Bushehr and Kurdistan.

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