Tehran chokes on pollution, regime denies blame
The Globe and Mail / Ramin Mostafavi
08-Dec-2010 (one comment)

Acute air pollution in Tehran cannot be blamed on gasoline produced in an emergency plan to foil sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program, officials said on Wednesday, instead blaming the weather and domestic heaters.

A weather system has trapped air in the Iranian capital for four weeks, posing a major health risk for people with respiratory problems and pushing up hospital admissions by more than 20 percent, according to the Health Ministry

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by yolanda on Wed Dec 08, 2010 09:48 PM PST

Look how IRI put a spin on the unprecedented air-pollution:

Acute air pollution in Tehran cannot be blamed on gasoline produced in an emergency plan to foil sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program, officials said on Wednesday, instead blaming the weather and domestic heaters.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said sanctions, ......have had no impact on the economy.

But he called on them to be lifted in order to make talks with major world powers, which resumed this week after more than a year, “fruitful.”


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