Iranian regime’s parliament looks at moving nation’s capital

The Iranian parliament regime voted Tuesday to consider a proposal to pick another city as the nation’s capital, potentially moving the seat of the government from the overcrowded and heavily polluted city of Tehran despite government opposition to the plan.

Official news agency IRNA said that lawmakers accepted outlines of the proposal with 110 out of 214 present lawmakers supporting it.

Under the plan, a council would be set up and spend two years studying which alternate location would be best. While there’s no suggestion in the bill which cities would be looked at, several central and western cities already have said they would like to be considered.

Supporters of the plan believe Tehran, with a metropolitan population of 12 million people, simply cannot support the capital. They point at the heavy pollution, the city’s traffic jams, as well as the risk of earthquakes there. Iran is located on several faults and experiences a light earthquake a day, on average.

In January this year, universities and government offices in Tehran were closed because of high air pollution.

A staggering 13,000 people die annually in Tehran as a result of air pollution, an official of the Iranian regime’s Health Ministry also admitted recently.

Source: News Agencies