{"id":7566,"date":"2009-12-26T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=7566"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:04:14","slug":"irans-capital-dipped-in-polluted-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/irans-capital-dipped-in-polluted-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Capital Dipped in Polluted Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian authorities cautioned that the cold season has deteriorated the condition of air pollution in the capital Tehran, saying that the high level of poisonous gases has posed a great danger to the citizens&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The colder the weather gets, the more air pollution we face in Tehran. Poisonous gases emitted from vehicles and industries continue to wreak havoc on Tehran&#8217;s air,&#8221; MNA quoted Director of Tehran&#8217;s Air Quality Control Company (AQCC) Yousef Rashidi as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Rashidi reiterated that Tehran&#8217;s air is in urgent need of snow and rain which help to the reduction of dust, SO2 and NO2.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Pollution-in-Tehran.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Iran&#039;s Capital Dipped in Polluted Air\" width=\"320\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Pollution-in-Tehran.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Pollution-in-Tehran-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><br \/>\nHe also took the Iranian health ministry responsible for not declaring the number of deaths linked with air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The latest study conducted by the AQCC found the current level of air pollution unprecedented in the past 30 years in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Vision in Tehran has decreased to 600 meters in some areas, indicating the problem will not be easily remedied.<\/p>\n<p>The latest research conducted by the Municipality of Tehran and Iran&#8217;s Department of the Environment (DoE) show that over 80% of Tehran&#8217;s air pollution is caused by automobile exhaust.<\/p>\n<p>The oppressive air pollution has long been a health hazard to Tehran&#8217;s 12 million inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Iranian botanist, the air pollution has even caused butterflies flee Tehran for gardens and parks in the countryside.<br \/>\n<em>Source: Fars News Agency<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian authorities cautioned that the cold season has deteriorated the condition of air pollution in the capital Tehran, saying that the high level of poisonous gases has posed a great danger to the citizens&#8217; lives. &#8220;The colder the weather gets, the more air pollution we face in Tehran. Poisonous gases emitted from vehicles and industries&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,20,21],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-iran-news","category-iran-provinces","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7567,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}