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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, currently on a visit to East Azarbaijan Province, made a stop at Lake Urmia on Tuesday to assess its deteriorating condition and review the ongoing efforts aimed at its restoration.
Tehran experienced a rare moment of clean air on Sunday, March 23, 2025, recording an Air Quality Index (AQI) of just 22 — placing it among the cleanest capitals in the world for the day.
Tehran residents are being urged to prepare for a severe water crisis as reservoir levels in the capital’s main dams have reached critically low levels.
Karaj Dam, one of the most critical sources of drinking water for the Iranian capital Tehran, is facing an unprecedented crisis as its water reserves plummet to alarming levels.
In a winter wonderland scene straight out of a storybook, the provincial capital of Ardabil, in northwestern Iran, was transformed as heavy snowfall led to the closure of schools and universities.
Tehran and 26 out of Iran’s 31 provinces were shut down on Tuesday due to shortages of electricity and gas amid freezing temperatures. This marks the second consecutive day of widespread closures across the country.
Iranian Interior Minister, Eskandar Momeni, has urged citizens and authorities to take some necessary measures so that the country will overcome the special weather conditions ahead.
Schools, offices, and stock exchanges as well as many other institutions across 27 provinces in Iran are closed on Saturday due to an intense cold wave and heavy snowfall.
Tehran has experienced 130 days of polluted air since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year, on March 21, according to a report by the social Tasnim News Agency.
The spokesperson for Iran’s water sector has issued a stern warning that after the central Iranian province of Isfahan, ground subsidence has reached the capital Tehran, northeastern city of Mashhad and other parts of the country.
The head of Iran’s Air Health and Climate Change Department says that the cost of deaths in the country in 2023 due to particulate matter (PM 2.5) was estimated at $12 billion.
Air pollution in the Iranian capital Tehran reached its peak on Tuesday, with the air quality index standing at 160, indicating unhealthy conditions for all groups.
The air quality in the Iranian capital Tehran during the past 30 days included 12 days of acceptable conditions, 9 days of unhealthy conditions for sensitive groups, and 9 days of unhealthy conditions for everyone, according to the Tehran Air Quality Control Company.
Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran and one of the largest saltwater lakes in the world, continues to struggle with a severe decline in water levels, reaching its lowest recorded point in history.
The National Center for Weather Forecasting in Iran reported extreme cold across the country on Monday with scores of regions experiencing minus 10 degrees celcious.
All schools and university classes in Iran’s provincial capital Tehran and several other provinces are held online on Sunday, due to persistent cold weather reported by the Tehran Meteorological Department.
For the second day in a row, the Iranian capital city of Tehran has been declared the most polluted city in the world, according to the global air quality index, IQAir.
The air pollution levels in the Iranian capitql Tehran, continue to be a major concern, with the air quality index (AQI) reaching 160 on Thursday, marking it as unhealthy for the entire population.
The Iranian capital Tehran's severe air pollution has led to the closure of schools, universities, and government offices in the province, excluding Damavand and Firuzkuh, on Wednesday and Thursday, which has triggered a mass exodus from the capital to northern provinces.
