NCRI – Iran’s air pollution is now the third worst in the world, according to the latest World Health Organization statistics.
Toxic air now killed 45,000 people every year across the country, Tehran city hall’s environment chief Mohammad Hadi Heidarzadeh said.
The new statistics is much lower than the figure that had been announced earlier in March.
Every year about 80,000 people in Iran die of environmental pollution, the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Health has announced.
According to a report by state-run Fars News Agency on February 27, the Ministry’s head of Environmental health department, Kazem Naddafi said that “Iran will have the highest health level in the region by 2025”.
He added that 80,000 annual deaths due to environmental pollution amount to 21 percent of overall annual death percentage in Iran.
Tehran and cities including Ahwaz, Mashhad, Tabriz, Isfahan, Shiraz and Arak are facing the environmental crisis due to increasingly heavy traffic using low quality fuel, experts said.
In Tehran, the presence of deadly airborne microparticles has even lead to the temporary closure of government offices.
Pollution is increasing despite oil revenue over the past eight years reaching 800 million dollars, because this revenue has been squandered on nuclear projects, repression and the export of terrorism with minimum funding dedicated to improving social services and the immediate daily needs of citizens.
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