JAME JAM, in a news report, has quoted head of the Organization for Crisis Management Hasan Qadami as saying that drought has affected 75 percent of the country’s lands. Qadami said in previous years, country’s natural disasters were limited to earthquakes and floods but currently drought and forest fire have been added to them, he said. Qadami said declining rainfall as the main reason for drought in Iran.
HAMSHAHRI, in a news report, has said while Tehran Governor General Morteza Tamadon claims that the air quality in Tehran is in a good condition MP Nasrollah Torabi Qahfarkhi has expressed concern over air pollution in Tehran. Tamadon also claimed that during the first six months of the current year the number of clean days in Tehran has greatly increased compared to 5 years ago. However, the director of the Tehran Air Quality Control Company has said Tehran has not experienced even one day of clean air in the first six month of the current year.