“Elderly people and children, along with cardiovascular and respiratory patients, should remain in their homes as much as possible,” Tehran Air Quality Control said in its latest advisory. Government agencies and businesses in the national capital were asked to reduce staffing and allow employees to work from h me, while schools across the city were closed.
Restrictions have been placed on trucks and automobiles within Tehran to reduce emissions. This had the unusual side effect of filling the streets with women riding on motorbikes, because it was impossible for men to drive them around in cars, as normally required by Iran’s repressive Islamist cultural regulations.
A deputy for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian admitted that “air pollution will kill if it becomes any more than this.” The director of emergency services for Tehran said on Monday that least 357 people died from causes related to air pollution over the past eight days. The director said his agency fielded thousands of emergency calls from people who found it difficult to cope with the toxic atmosphere. (Read More)
