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01/09/07 |
Iran smog 'kills 3,600 in month'
Air pollution is estimated to have killed nearly 10,000 people in Tehran over a one-year period, including 3,600 in a month, Iranian officials say.
Most of the deaths were caused by heart attacks and respiratory illnesses brought on by smog, they said.
The scale of the problem led one senior official to say living in the Iranian capital was like "collective suicide".
Cheap fuel encourages car use in Iran, correspondents say, and many vehicles do not meet global emissions standards.
"It is a very serious and lethal crisis, a collective suicide," the director of Tehran's clean air committee, Mohammad Hadi Heydarzadeh, told an Iranian newspaper.
"A real revolution is needed to resolve this problem."
He said air quality had worsened and was linked to some 3,600 deaths in October. Many of the deaths were caused by heart attacks brought on by the air pollution.
New figures showed a sharp rise in pollution-related deaths in Iran, where 9,900 people died of pollution in the previous Iranian year (March 2005 to March 2006).
The latest assessments were based on World Bank figures which extrapolate mortality rates according to certain levels of pollution.
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Everyone ready to “bow down to the greatness of the Iranian nation?” Maybe the Mahdi Hatter will buddy up with alGore to fix this? Come to think of it, the two of them do kind of resemble each other...
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Clarification/Follow-up by arcura on 01/09/07 11:23 pm:
Hey guys, none of the images showed up for me. What's up?
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 01/10/07 12:09 am:
Ain't gonna work here, we live just down the road from Hereford, I've worked next door to a pig farm and I've been to Sulphur, OK.
not here either ;with us being so close to the Jersey Turnpike and all
New Jersey ;a state where people go to a landfill next to a turnpike that's on fire on weekends to cheer both teams from New York.
Why are New Yorkers always so depressed ? Because the light at the end of the tunnel is in NJ .
"New Jersey is like a beer barrel, tapped at both ends, with all the live beer running into Philadelphia and New York."Ben Franklin
We have to settle on a name for the Mahdi Hatter
I kind of like Ahm~a~mad~jihad .I have been spelling it that way for a couple of weeks and nobody has seemed to notice. I notice in the pix above that he hasn't quite mastered the blow-hard yet ....maybe a catagory 2 .... Gore is catagory 5 (the first two pix makes them almost look like they were seperated at birth. )
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