NCRI – Air pollution is killing four people every week in the province of Isfahan, the latest figures have revealed.
The air quality crisis is being blamed on the use of non-standard fuel, which has doubled pollution levels over the past four years, according to the province’s environmental organization.
More than 100 heart and respiratory patients in hospital in the city of Zarinshahr have written a letter of protest at the regime’s failure to clear the city’s air.
The latest deaths include two heart patients who died after suffering breathing problems in Lordegan district, Chahrmahal and Bakhtiari Province, where air pollution is known to be blown into the city from Khuzistan Province
Pollution has sparked mass public protests of tens of thousands of demonstrators in cities across Iran.
On August 17th, residents in the city of Arak, central Iran, took to the streets along with their children to protest against pollution from the Shazand power plant, and also at jamming signals transmitted by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
The demonstrators, all wearing masks, chanted anti-regime slogans and waved placards demanding, ‘Help our children suffering from cancer’, ‘We want to stay alive’ and ‘Clean air is our right’.
In January 2013, the Majlis representative from Arak also confessed: “The people of Arak, due to the Shazand power plant, spend 250 days out of 365 days suffering pollution and for this reason many people have been afflicted with cancer, 300 of which need hospital treatment.”
On August 15, 10,000 people also staged a protest in the city of Zanjan against the pollution from the lead and zinc factory in this city, with demonstrators chanting, ‘Have no fear, we are all together’, ‘Zealous townsmen, unite!’ and ‘We don’t want graphite and zinc, we want clean air’.
