Iran's Raisi links regional dust storms to Western hegemony
Tehran recently hosted a regional summit on addressing the dust storms that have ravaged the area over the past two years.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi accused Western powers of playing into the destruction of environment by tapping into the Middle East's natural resources.
Raisi was addressing a regional summit in Tehran that brought together environment chiefs from 11 countries, including Iraq, Syria and Turkey. The conference is focused on delivering solutions for regional environmental crises, particularly severe dust storms, with which the region is currently grappling.
Raisi argued that "the excessive greed of the hegemonic system" as well as a policy of "keeping the governments and nations of the region deprived of science and technology … have led to the emergence of irreparable environmental crises."
The hard-line cleric criticized Western states for having compromised the environment in countries they have exploited for the purpose of their own economic development, asserting that those powers are "the ones who should take more responsibility."
