🔶 Pezeshkian’s request to compensate Iran for environmental damage from the war

Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, on Wednesday, 11 November (20 Aban), in his speech at the thirty-first session of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Turkey, called on the international community to make up for the environmental impacts of attacks against the Islamic Republic.

He said: “We expect the international community and responsible organizations to establish a real link between climate commitments in peacetime and responsibility in wartime, and to strengthen compensation mechanisms by documenting environmental damages resulting from military aggression.”

The Iranian president claimed that attacks by the United States and Israel on this country’s fuel facilities “have led to the release of 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.”

Referring to “assessments carried out,” he added: “The attack on fuel facilities in Assaluyeh has led to the release of about 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide, and the deliberate attack on fuel depots around Tehran has caused the release of about one million tons of carbon dioxide.”

Pezeshkian called the environment “the silent victim of wars.”