Without intervention, Iran will effectively make environmentalism a crime GlobeDebate
And it’s a trial that symbolizes a broader assault on environmentalism in Iran.
Indeed, the authorities arrested the conservationists precisely when the country needed them the most. Iran’s environment isin fact, the arrests occurred during the country’s worst drought in modern times. Yet, around the same time, authorities went so far as to detain the deputy head of Iran’s Environment Department, also a water conservation expert, for 72 hours.
Tehran’s prosecutor falsely accused the conservationists of spying and “collecting classified information … under the guise of carrying out scientific and environmental projects.” He laterHis accusations proved to be baseless. Countless Iranian government bodies and authorities themselves have even attested as such.
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