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Environment

New footage showing Iranian cheetah cub in good shape

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A video of Iranian Asiatic cheetah cub Pirouz shows he has grown well and seems to be healthy and agile.
Urban

Water reserves behind Tehran dams at lowest level in 50 years: Official

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An Iranian official warns that the available water reserves behind dams supplying water to the capital, Tehran, the country’s most populous city, have decreased to the lowest level in half a century, urging the public to help save water.
Environment

Heavy dust storm, winds turn the sky gray in Iran’s Ahvaz

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Heavy dust storms and abrupt winds have hit the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz, causing difficulties for the general public.
Environment

Iranian official confirms presence of methane over Tehran landfill

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An Iranian official has confirmed the presence of methane over a landfill in southern Tehran, saying the landfill should be relocated promptly, but has questioned a NASA reading that said a plume of the gas at the site was 4.8 kilometers long.
Environment

Fire in Hoor-al-Azim Wetland still burning, smoke blanketing Iranian cities

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An Iranian official says the fire in the Iraqi part of Hoor-al-Azim Wetland is continuing to burn, and smoke from the fire has blanketed some Iranian cities.
Environment

Official: Decrease in water level of Caspian Sea poses a problem

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The average annual water level of the Caspian Sea decreases by about 20 centimeters and this rings the alarm for Iran’s northern ports.
Environment

Fire engulfs Anzali Lagoon in northern Iran once again

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Another fire has ripped through Anzali Lagoon in Iran’s northern province of Gilan and is still raging, prompting local officials to call in aerial firefighting teams.
Environment

Persian cheetah cub born in captivity doing well, turns 4 months old

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After the death of two of the three Asiatic cheetah cubs born in captivity in Iran, the third sibling, named Pirooz or victor, is now four months old, living in the capital Tehran’s Pardisan wildlife park.
Environment

Official: Air pollution killed 21,000 Iranians last year

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Some 21,000 people in 27 cities across Iran lost their lives due to air pollution, with 6,000 of the deaths in the capital Tehran, according to Iran’s National Air and Climate Change Center.
Environment

Official: Taliban divert Hirmand water, deny Iran’s right

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The Taliban rulers have followed in the footsteps of the previous administration in Afghanistan and have deprived Iran of its share of water from the Hirmand River, an Iranian official says.
Environment

Rare Persian leopard spotted in Iran’s Jiroft

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A scarce Persian leopard on the UN’s endangered species list has been caught on camera in a protected area in southeastern Iranian city of Jiroft, an official has confirmed.
Local

Water crisis in Iran’s Hamedan: Ekbatan Dam drying up

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Ekbatan Dam, the main water supply in the west Iranian city of Hamedan, faces the risk of drying up, as the country suffers from drought and ‘mismanagement’ of water reservoirs.
Environment

Water outage hits Iranian city after flooding

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People in the Kouhrang, the largest city in the western Iranian province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad have been living without water for 7 days now.
Agriculture

Iranian president calls for changing cultivation patterns

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has stressed the need for modifying the country’s cultivation patterns.
Environment

Lake Urmia, one step away from drying up

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The footsteps of the crisis began to be heard a long time ago. Lake Urmia is now on its last legs. The issue is no longer a matter of warning or risk.
Environment

Iran raises the alarm over Caspian Sea pollutants

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August 12 is designated as the Caspian Sea Day, but not everything is so august when it comes to the world’s largest inland body of water, often described as the world’s largest lake.
Environment

“Oil rig in Persian Gulf to blame for pollution off Iran coasts”

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The director general of the Environmental Protection Department of Iran’s Bushehr Province says leakage from an oil rig in the Persian Gulf is probably to blame for oil spills off the Kangan and Asalooyeh coasts in southern Iran.
Environment

Iranian minister in Kabul for Hirmand water right talks

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Iran’s energy minister has called for the implementation of the 1972 Hirmand River treaty with Afghanistan over the water rights of the two countries.
Environment

Rare Asiatic Cheetah killed in road accident in Iran

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An Asiatic cheetah has died in Iran after being hit by a passing car on the Tehran-Mashhad road.
Environment

Floods reach Iran’s Hirmand from Afghanistan

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After the recent heavy downpours in Afghanistan, floods have spilled over into Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province through the Hirmand River.
Foreign Policy

FM: Iran won’t give up even a drop of water rights

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The Iranian foreign minister says Iran will not forgo even a drop of its water rights amid a dispute with neighboring Turkey and the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan.
Environment

Taliban say Iran will receive water right from Helmand River

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A Taliban official who serves as the Afghanistan's energy and water ministry’s spokesman has said Iran will receive its water right from Helmand River under the 1972 agreement between the two countries.
Environment

Iran will not forgo rights to water from Helmand River: Raisi

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the Islamic Republic will forcefully pursue its right to water shares from the Helmand River in Afghanistan.
Environment

15 tons of garbage dumped into Iran’s Anzali Lagoon daily: Environment official

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An Iranian environment official says 15 tons of refuse is dumped into Anzali Lagoon in Iran’s northern Gilan Province every day.
Environment

Official: Taliban withhold Iran’s water share

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Iran and representatives of the Taliban administration in Afghanistan have failed to reach an agreement on the two countries’ share of water from the Hirmand River, an Iranian official says.
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