Iran Suffers Heatwaves, Forest Fires and Sandstorms
The scorched wetlands and river beds have turned the wind into sand storms. The wind "has turned the region into hell."/ Iran is facing a series of environmental disasters this summer, including forest fires, record heat indexes in some provinces and sandstorms threatening the capital, Tehran. Namak (Persian Salt) Lake in Qom province, which once measured 200,000 hectares, has completely dried up because of climate change, the ill-considered construction of tens of dams and depleted underground water resources. to Seyed Ahmad Shafie, deputy ...
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