Financial Tribune - The pattern of procrastination by automakers and the influence of their strong lobbies notwithstanding, the Department of Environment insists on its stance that car companies must start making advanced engines compliant with Euro 5 emissions standards, the DoE head said. We are resolute in not wanting to issue licenses for manufacturing ...

Foreign Policy | Nik Kowsar,Alireza Nader: For more than a year, since December 2017, protests and civil disobedience have been a fixture of life in Iran. Many of the political and economic grievances fueling this unrest will be familiar to foreign observers. But one major reason for these disturbances has gone overlooked: the countrys dire water shortages....

IRNA The United Nations should get involved in the water right issue between Iran and Afghanistan, said Iran's vice president and head of the Department of Environment. 'Afghanistan avoids allocating the officially agreed water right due to US pressures and interferences, which has endangered health and economy of the people in Iran,' said Isa ...

Tasnim Iran faces losing 70 percent of its farmlands if urgent action is not taken to overcome a litany of climate woes, Isa Kalantari, the countrys environment chief, said. We currently use about 100 percent of our renewable water ... according to global standards this figure should not be higher than 40 percent, said Kalantari, vice president and ...

Bourse and Bazaar | AFP - Iran's vice-president in charge of environmental affairs has called for an explanation on the fate of more than a dozen activists arrested this year, state news agency IRNA reported Sunday. "We are not asking for their release or for their execution, we just want their fate to be clarified. This is part of their citizenship ...

MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sent a letter to Foreign Ministry, tasking the body to seriously follow the case of Hour al-Azim wildfire in Iraqi part of the wetland, said chief of Khuzestan provincial department of environment on Saturday. The chief of Irans Department of Environment Isa Kalantari had requested for the help ...

Financial Tribune - Head of the Department of Environment Isa Kalantari called for the Science Ministry, which is in charge of higher education, to narrow the focus of an environmental college to ranger training. "We ask the Science Ministry to officially change the title of the Collage of Environment to Collage of Ranger Training, so the park rangers ...

Financial Tribune - Head of Irans Department of Environment instructed officials in southwestern Fars Province to prepare an urgent plan to revive the embattled Bakhtegan Lake in cooperation with a local university. A consistent plan should be devised, with the Shiraz University playing a central role, in two months for the restoration of Bakhtegan ...

MNA Iranian Vice President and Head of the Department of Environment (DoE) Isa Kalantari has arrived in Khuzestan province to closely monitor efforts to prevent wildfires in Iraqi part of Hour al-Azim wetland from reaching Iran. Isa Kalantari arrived in the provincial capital of Khuzestan province, Ahvaz, on Sunday. Iraqi part of Hour ...

MNA Talking about Lake Urmia, a body of water shared between East and West Azarbaijan provinces in northwestern Iran, chief of Irans Department of Environment (DOE) put emphasis on the fact that no water transfer scheme is underway for restoration of the lake. In 1999 the volume of water was at 30 billion cubic meters, but now the lake ...

Financial Tribune - A project to stimulate genetic admixture among the wildlife species in Lashgardar Protected Area in Malayer, Hamedan Province, will be carried out this year to stem a decline in their populations, the head of the Department of Environment said. Isa Kalantari made the statement in response to a letter by Mohammad Kazemi, a lawmaker ...

ISNA In a reaction to a video published by the Zionist regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Twitter, the head of Irans Department of Environment Isa Kalantari stressed that the Israeli PM is better to wrap up his own mess first. In this video, Netanyahu offered to help Iranians overcome water crisis and announced that Israel has created ...

MNA The chief of Irans Department of Environment Isa Kalantari and EU Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Caete hold a meeting on Monday about environmental challenges. Touching on the long history of relations between Iran and Europe, Kalantari hoped that European countries could retain their independence against the United ...

IRNA Iranian vice president in a meeting with the German envoy to Tehran welcomed cooperation with Berlin on environment protection. 'Iran welcomes sharing technology and modern science in the field of renovating the fleet transportation and waste management,' Iranian Vice President and Head of the Department of Environment (DoE) Isa Kalantari ...

Tasnim Head of Irans Environmental Protection Organization (IEPO) Isa Kalantari said the country should use foreign funds to save Lake Oroumiyeh, the largest saltwater lake in the Middle East. Speaking at a meeting with the representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution in East Azarbaijan Province on Saturday, Kalantari raised the alarm about ...

Financial Tribune- Isa Kalantari, the head of the Department of Environment, expressed strong confidence in the recently appointed Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian for implementing effective water policies. DOE has recently been assigned with four major tasks by President Hassan Rouhani, namely air pollution in metropolises, waste management, especially ...

IFP - Kaveh Madani, a salient Iranian environment lecturer at Imperial College of London, has been appointed as the Social, International, Technology and Educational Deputy of Irans Department of Environment. Issa Kalantari, the Iranian Vice-President and head of the Department of Environment, has appointed Madani as his new deputy. Following ...

president.ir- President Rouhani appointed Dr Issa Kalantari as Vice-President and Head of Department of Environment (DoE). President Rouhani's letter of appointment reads: In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful Dear Dr Issa Kalantari, According to Article 124 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran and ...

Severity of the water shortage in Iran has not yet dawned on the general public. Even government authorities had not acknowledged the depth of problem until only recently. Negligence and carelessness now has Iran facing hard times. We are now dealing with the consequences of inaction. We have reached a point where 70% of the population has to make-...

Speaking to a group of reporters and experts April 25, Issa Kalantari, the adviser for water, agricultureand theenvironmentto Irans vice president, warned that if Iran does not change its approach towater use, the resultcould be mass migration. According to Shahrvand newspaper, Kalantari, a former minister of agriculture, warned that by continuing ...