Corruption and mismanagement at the highest levels of the Iranian regime have produced years of environmental exploitation and degradation throughout the country. Compounded by drought and rising temperatures, the unwillingness of Iran’s leaders to confront the challenges before them is moving the country toward environmental crisis
Tag: Environmentalists
Twelve conservationists detained without counsel in Iran
Twelve of the 20 environmental conservationists arrested in Iran’s Kurdistan Province in January and February 2019 remain in detention centers run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence in the city of Sanandaj, the provincial capital, without access to legal counsel…
Revolutionary Guards rain down terror upon scientists
In early February 2018, Maryam Mombeini received a phone call asking her to come to Evin prison, the most feared place in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Two weeks before, her husband of 40 years, Kavous Seyed-Emami, professor at Imam Sadiq University, had been arrested…
DiCaprio again appeals for release of Iran ecologists
Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has once again defended eight Iranian environmentalists who have been in detention…
