Environment

Radiofarda – High concentration of salt in the water has shut down the industrial and agricultural sectors around the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan and forced some of the residents to emigrate to other cities, an Iranian official says. “In the last month, the situation has become so critical that business activities have been directly affected”, Masoud Khayyatzadeh, the president …

Iran-HRM –  Looming Disaster, Iran Drought Crisis

Radiofarda – Officials of the Islamic Republic lambasted Israel on Monday, June 11, for launching a Persian website to “assist people and farmers of Iran to recycle water”.

Iran-HRM – Ali Akbari, MP, criticized the country’s environmental conditions as becoming very fragile and said that unfortunately, with the production of non-standard gasoline, air and water pollution has been provided. In one way, due to the entry of urban and industrial wastewater, the life of the seas, rivers, and wetlands have been threatened and in another way because of …

Radiofarda – In an open letter addressed to President Hassan Rouhani, the sister of an imprisoned environmentalist says her family has been cautioned by authorities to keep quiet about their relative’s detention, lest he be executed.

Al-Arabia – Water levels have dropped dramatically in the last few days in Iraq’s Tigris river following a decrease in supply out of Turkey.

Al-Monitor – Iran has long been faced with a wide range of environmental challenges. These include everything from drought leading to soil erosion and sandstorms to water shortages and air pollution in major cities. However, it has only been in recent years that officials and experts alike have publicly called for genuine measures to slow down the damage to the …

Iran-HRM – Hamed Sepehri and Jafar Ebrahimi, two environmental activists from Bukan, northwest Iran, were sentenced to 18 months behind bars in the Urmia court on May 5th, on charges of “spreading propaganda against the state.”

Iran-HRM – In regard to a case known as ‘Environmental Activists,’ Payam Dorfeshan, the lawyer of Kavoos Seyed Imami, explained: “Having in mind the situation of the families of these captives who are tirelessly following their cases, some said that they were able to have a few words with their children but I have been informed based on other information …

CHRI – The head of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE), Vice President Isa Kalantari, has publicly rejected claims by hardline judicial officials and media outlets that environmentalists detained in a crackdown by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) engaged in espionage.