NCRI – According to World Health Organization data covering more than 1,000 cities in 91 countries and air monitoring data from a variety of sources between 2003 and 2010, suggest that the world’s worst air pollution floats over Ahwaz, a city in southwestern Iran.
One of the crucial measures of dangerous air pollution is the number of parts per million of particles smaller than 10 micrometers (PM10) wafting through the air. The average PM10 level in Ahwaz hovers around 372. This is much worse than Beijing that its residents breathe in air with an average PM10 of 121, says a report by Slate Magazine.
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.
