An environmental activist from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province has been arrested. According to opposition site Daneshjoo news, Mostafa Bani-Sharif was arrested on Tuesday after being summoned to the Intelligence Bureau of Shahrekord city, the province’s capital. Bani-Sharif is said to have been a signatory to a letter written by 80 activists in the province […]
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Environmental official warns of rising cancer incidence
Massoumeh Ebtekar, the head of the Tehran Environmental Committee, announced that patients are being diagnosed with cancer at a younger age.
Environmental leader warns of deaths from pollution
The head of the Environmental and Sustainable Development Organization in Tehran says 45,000 Iranians die each year from complications caused by air pollution all across the country.
Environmental protests ‘against God’ says judiciary official
GVF — An official in Iran’s judiciary has said that environmental protests against the drying up of Iran’s Lake Urmia were a form of protest against God.
Regime responds with brutality to environmental protests in Urmia, Tabriz
GVF — Thousands of Iranians have protested the Iranian authorities’ failure to take action to save Lake Urmia, the Middle East’s largest lake and the third largest salt-water lake in the world.
Azeri Activists Detained In Iran For Environmental Protests
A tire lies on a dried-up section of Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran.BAKU — Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has detained over 30 ethnic Azeris in recent days over environmental protests, RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service reports.