Tasnim Air pollution caused by haze and particles in Irans southeastern province of Kerman has reached hazardous levels, a provincial official said. Air conditions are still alarming in the cities of Kerman, Fahraj, and Rigan, Reza Jazinizadeh, the head of Kerman province's department of environment, told Tasnim on Sunday. The concentration ...

IRNA One hundred and 71 people have been hospitalized due to the respiratory problems caused by storm, said the provincial head of the local crisis management body in Sistan and Balouchestan. A total of 810 people referred to the hospitals and healthcare centers in Iran's southeastern province from Aug 20 due to breathing, eye and heart diseases,...

Tasnim A high-ranking Iranian Foreign Ministry official, in a United Nations General Assembly meeting, voiced the countrys concerns over the issue of dust pollution and said resolving the problem hinges on regional and international cooperation. Addressing the meeting titled High-Level Interactive Dialogue on Sand and Dust Storms in New York on ...

IFP - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the current president of the UN General Assembly have sat down for talks in New York. In the Friday meeting, FM Zarif and Miroslav Laj?k exchanged views on the developments at the UN body, and the upcoming conference on sustaining peace. They also discussed the holding of a high-level ...

IRNA A regional institution of the United Nations' Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific is ready to cooperate with Iran in controlling the negative effects of sand and dust storms in the country, a senior official of the institute said Wednesday. Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM) ...

MNA Irans Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo says that after the adoption of UN resolution on combating sand and dust storms, Iran hopes for more developments in the field. Irans Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo, said that the solution to the phenomenon of dust and mist pollution is serious national, regional,...

Tasnim More than 5,000 local residents in Irans southeastern Sistan region have received medical treatment in hospitals as a persistent sandstorm, part of annual 120-day winds, is tearing through the area. Layers of dust on cars, streets and just about everything else outside are a common scene that people in Sistan have seen every day in recent ...

MNA Deputy head of the Department of Environment pointing to the meeting of environmental representatives of Iran and Iraq on Sunday, said the two sides decided to launch a joint center for inhibiting and reducing the damages of dust pollution. During the meeting, the two sides underlined the demands of Iranian government and the Environmental Protection ...

Press TV- Iran sends a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to urge creation of a regional task force toaddressthe pressing issue of dust stormsplighting the region. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sundaythe letter will be sent to the UN chief later in the day. Zarif as well asEnergy Minister Hamid Chitchian andhead ...

IRNA UN Undersecretary General Erik Solheim said on Friday that Iran has managed to raise the issue of dust storm at international level and urge other countries to take practicle measures to solve the problem. Solheim, also Head of UN Environment Programme (UNEP), made the remarks during his address to the inaugural ceremony of the 16th International ...

MNA Iran's initiative resolution for controlling and combating dust pollution phenomena was approved in the Second Committee of UN General Assembly on Friday. After two and a half months of negotiations in New York, Second Committee of UN General Assembly approved Iran's initiative to combat the dust pollution. The resolution has described ...

The air pollution caused by dust and particles in Irans western provinces, including Khuzestan, has reached dangerous levels. The disruptive dust storms have pushed pollution in these border areas to alarming levels, raising health concerns. Schools and universities have been shut down due to the alarming dust pollution. The particles, carried ...

Tehran, June 21, IRNA - Vice President and Head of Iran's Department of the Environment, Massoumeh Ebtekar here on Tuesday urged Iraq to tackle dust and haze pollution. Ebtekar made the remarks in a telephone conversation with the caretaker of Iraq's Ministry of Environment Jassim AbdulAziz Humadi. Highlighting the negative effects of dust storms ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A group of Iranian lawmakers put forward a motion to oblige President Hassan Rouhanis administration to address the issue of dust pollution in the countrys western provinces, a parliamentarian said. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Hassan Soleimani said the motion, signed by 40 lawmakers, has been submitted to the presiding ...

Tehran, June 19, IRNA An urgent meeting to consider the problem of dust in Iran's provinces was held in the presence of 5 ministers, 5 governor generals, Vice President and head of Department of Environment Masoumeh Ebtekar, and some other officials. Chaired by Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, the latest condition of dust in many Iranian ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The dust that has been blanketing Irans western and southwestern provinces in recent days is coming from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria, Head of Irans Environmental Protection Organization (IEPO) Masoumeh Ebtekar said. According to online maps, the dust particles that have blanketed vast areas of western and southern Iran, including ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The air pollution caused by dust and particles in Irans western provinces, including Lorestan, has reached dangerous levels, a senior environmental official announced. Air conditions are very dangerous in Lorestan Province and its air pollution levels have risen to 29 times the limits, Mehrdad Fathi Biranvand, the head of Environmental ...

Tehran, June 7, IRNA Climate change, drought, low precipitations and lower water level in marshlands have caused environmental challenges to Iran and the Western Asian nations, Department of Environment chief said on Sunday. 'A major part of the dust pollution in Iran comes to our country through Iraq and in fact Iraq, Jordan, Syria and the Arabian ...

Irans environment chief said Saturday that Tehran and Baghdad have launched a joint project to tackle the problems related to dust storms in an Iraqi region. Masoumeh Ebtekar further said she and her Iraqi counterpart have decided in a meeting to identify dust centers in the Iraqi region and launch efforts to overcome the problem. She also said ...

[caption id="attachment_151257" align="alignright" width="161"] Iranian lawmakers wore medical face masks in parliament in a show of solidarity with residents of their areas battling pollution from strong sandstorms on February 15, 2015.[/caption] TEHRAN: Iranian lawmakers wore medical face masks in parliament on Sunday in a show of solidarity with ...