29 Mar 2024
Sunday 24 March 2013 - 19:10
Story Code : 23056

Iranians join millions worldwide for Earth Hour

Iranians join millions worldwide for Earth Hour
[caption id="attachment_23057" align="alignright" width="300"]Iranian to join millions worldwide for Earth Hour Iranian to join millions worldwide for Earth Hour[/caption]
Iran big cities like Thousands of cities in Asia and Australasia plunged into darkness on Saturday evening to markEarth Hour.
since 2007, when 2.2 million residents ofSydneyparticipated by turning off all non-essential lights, Earth Hour being held each year in many cities.Many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008 and in2013 Earth Hour is being held on March 23, 2013 from 8:30p.m. to 9:30p.m. during participants' local time.

Iran joined Earth Hour in 2011, and Tehranmunicipality turned some buildings off for first time. in 2013, some other cities like Isfahan, Rasht andreligiouscity of Qomwould join this global event. All events would hold bymunicipalities in these cities, also some buildings and squares would turn off their lights including 2 famous tower, Milad and Azadi in Tehran.

It seems that Iranians are interested in such non-political events and they joinenvironmentalmovements to show another face of Iran.
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