According to the education ministry, schools in Tehran cities in all grades and shifts, will be closed on Wednesday due to heavy air pollution.

Iran’s Meteorological Organization declared the continuation of pollution in industrial cities for the next two days, furcating rain in the northern part of the country from late today until Friday.

Financial Tribune - The new Iranian Parliament seemingly has no interest in working on government bills for controlling air pollution, an environmental expert says. Speaking with IRNA, Rouhollah Baqeri added that the government has been pushing several bills expected to help curb air pollution, especially in Tehran. However, since the Majlis ...

Financial Tribune - Scientists and medical professionals argue that there is a potential link between long-term exposure to air pollution and compromised lung capacity, which could make an individual more likely to develop a severe form of COVID-19 Although winter is on the way out, Tehran is still struggling with persistent air pollution. With ...

Financial Tribune - The increasing number of dilapidated vehicles plying the streets, ineffective remedial schemes, inefficient urban management and climate change effects have made living and breathing in an expanding and highly polluted metropolis like Tehran very difficult. Based on the data released by Tehran Air Quality Control Company, Tehrans ...

Financial Tribune - Air pollution has become a source of serious concern to the Iranian capitals residents in the absence of workable solutions, Tehrans Mayor Pirouz Hanachi said while detailing plans to curb the all-pervasive smog. Speaking on Friday, Hanachi emphasized that the burning of fossil fuels, excessive use of private cars and the growing ...

Financial Tribune - As air pollution in Tehran has worsened over the past several days, urban managers held an emergency meeting on Friday to take remedial actions While the Iranian capital has been suffocating under a blanket of smog that has refused to budge over the past seven days, urban managers seem to be content taking ineffectual measures ...

AP Irans state-run IRNA news agency reports that authorities in the capital Tehran have decided to close down all kindergartens, schools and universities because of high levels of air pollution. The Friday report quotes Tehran Province Deputy Gov. Mohammad Taghiizade as saying a special committee made the decision following days of high air pollution ...

Press TV - All elementary schools in and around the Iranian capital Tehran have been suspended for the last day of the education week amid elevated levels of pollution in the smog-ridden city. The governor of Tehran province said on Tuesday that elementary schools in cities of Tehran, as well as in Varamin, Qarchak and Pishva, all to the south of ...

Financial Tribune - Outdoor physical exercises in all school grades have been cancelled until Friday (Nov. 15), as the sprawling city experienced its seventh consecutive day of dangerously high air pollution levels. In an emergency meeting held on Sunday, the Air Pollution Emergency Committee announced that if the air quality deteriorates further ...

Financial Tribune - The residents of Iranian capital breathed in more toxic particles in September, as air quality deteriorated slightly compared with the corresponding month of last year, data released by Tehran Air Quality Control Company show. Charts published on TAQCCs website, Airnow.tehran.ir, show that in September, Tehrans residents were ...

Tehran Times - Tehran air quality reached a level which was unhealthy for sensitive groups for about 7 days due to ozone pollutant; as the statistics show concentration of this pollutant increases in the capital mostly during summer, so, ground level ozone became the main contributor to pollution in the capitals hot seasons. Ozone in the lower atmosphere ...

Al-Monitor - Saeid Jafari: Pirouz Hanachi is the third mayor of Tehran elected by the City Council in a period of less than seven months. As part of his drive to establish a closer connection with the city's residents, Hanachi recently joined a campaign dubbed "car-free Tuesdays." The campaign, originally launched in December 2015, has never become ...

Financial Tribune - Nine out of 18 air quality monitoring stations in Tehran issued emergency alerts on Wednesday with Tehran Air Quality Control Company (TAQCC) announcing that conditions are expected to worsen in the coming days. After several days of clean air in the past few months, the anticipation of a better year in terms of air quality had ...

Financial Tribune- Tehran Municipality is of the opinion that electric motorbikes could be a part of the solution to the overcrowded capitals worsening air pollution. With 2,600 premature pollution-related deaths every year, Iran is among the top five countries in terms of air pollution mortality. Motorcycles are a major nuisance in the capital ...

Financial Tribune- Officials continue to adopt the same stopgap solutions such as school closure or traffic restrictions to alleviate the capital's air quality without any success. However, an urban design expert has proposed a solution that calls for making alterations in urban elements to open up wind passageways to allow the smog to blow away,...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Iran's air pollution crisis, whichclaimed more than 4,800 lives in 2016, has become yet another area for scoringpolitical pointsfor both the Reformists and the Principlists, much like almost everything else in Iran. Ever since the Reformists took over the presidency and the capital city, they no longer criticize the administration ...

Financial Tribune- A s Tehran's air quality began to hit unhealthy levels, the authorities were left with no other choice but to take the same emergency short-term measures such as traffic restrictions and schools closures. The air quality index began to rise over the healthy threshold of 100 on Friday and reached 115 on Saturday. To help alleviate ...

MNA Heads of three branches of government - the judicial, the executive and the legislative, will hold a meeting within a month to review proposals addressing the pollution and earthquake preparedness in the cosmopolitan Tehran. A member of Parliaments board of directors, Mohammad Ali Vakili, told reporters on Saturday that a joint strategic committee ...

Financial Tribune- Tehran's air quality, which deteriorated on Saturday following a short respite on Friday, is expected to last until Monday morning. Despite wind speed picking up, it will not be enough to have an impact until at least Sunday evening, ISNA reported, quoting the Tehran Air Quality Control Company. Tehran's air quality index was ...