EghtesadOnline: Heavy rain fall drenched regions across 18 provinces in Iran, causing road blockage, surging floodwater and a significant drop in temperature throughout the country.

EghtesadOnline: The hand of nature, rain and wind, has pushed away the suffocating blanket of smog that had covered Tehran, making air in January a tad cleaner compared to the previous month.

EghtesadOnline: Since the beginning of the current water year (September 23) almost 140 millimeters of rain fell in Iran, 22% above the long-term average, head of Weather Forecasting Office at Iran's Meteorological Organization said.