Iran's Pollution Worries Come by Air and Water

by Nazanin Rafsanjani, Fall 2006 NPR-Bucksbaum International Fellow
Reprinted with permission of NPR's "All Things Considered"

January 26, 2007

The Islamic Republic of Iran is facing a growing domestic problem: pollution. The air quality in Tehran was recently called a "collective suicide" by an Iranian environmental official. But air pollution is just one of Iran's environmental woes. In its northern region, the Caspian Sea — the world's largest lake — is so contaminated that delicate ecological areas are at risk. Nazanin Rafsanjani reported on the Caspian Sea region as the NPR-Bucksbaum Fellow, part of the International Reporting Project.

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