14,400,000 people suffocating in deadly smog engulfing capital city

Tehran – Iran’s capital city, which boasts a population of 14.4 million – is choking to death.

Schools and kindergartens shut their doors, replacing learning with a ‘TV school,’ universities stopped classes and emergency rooms packed with gasping patients.

This is the consequence of Tehran entering the ranking of the world’s top five most polluted cities, which may have contributed to the death of at least 357 people in the last week of November.

For 10 days in a row, the Iranian capital – as well as other major cities in the country – have experienced ‘very unhealthy’ air quality. The impact is rising rapidly.

Mohammad Esmail Tavakoli, director of Tehran’s emergency organisation, said that the city received 57,000 emergency calls and conducted 28,000 checks in the last week of Novembe