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Drastic water shortages and air pollution are fuelling Iran’s protests

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par Rachael Jolley, Environment Editor, The Conversation

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“Iran is experiencing not one environmental crisis but the convergence of several: water shortages, land subsidence, air pollution and energy failure. All added together, life is a struggle for survival.”

This is the situation inside Iran as described by Nima Shokri, an environmental engineer who works on global challenges related to the environment. Shokri highlights a rarely discussed factor in relation to this year’s massive…

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