NCRI – The Iranian city of Ahwaz is the most polluted city in the world, based on data compiled by the World Health Organization.
The list of the most polluted cities in the world published by the business news website Quartz includes names of four cities in Iran”: Ahwaz, Kermanshah, Sanandaj, and Yasouj.
The city of Ahwaz, in southwestern Iran with population of more than three million is the capital of Khuzestan Province.
The report is published a day after the World Health Organization published a report linking air pollution to lung cancer.
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.
According to some studies, 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.
Every year about 80,000 people in Iran die of environmental pollution, the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Health had 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.
On Wednesday, residents of the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz formed a human chain to protest against the regime’s plans to divert water from the Karun river to central Iran. The protesters said this is a cause of illness and air pollution.
