Will thawing Iran's frozen assets help slow down climate change? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Masoud Lavasani

Dec 1, 2015

Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Masoumeh Ebtekar delivers a speech during the opening session of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe - RTX1WKDZ — Vice President of Iran Masoumeh Ebtekar delivers a speech during the opening session of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 at Le Bourget, near Paris, Nov. 30, 2015. — REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

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Motorists travel on a highway in Tehran as the city is covered in dust July 6, 2009. The government closed private educational centres, state offices, industrial units and military bases for two days and raised its pollution alert status due to the dust, which an official from Tehran's environment office attributed the source to dust from dried marshland in Iraq blown towar

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Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari (R) meets with Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in Baghdad February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (IRAQ - Tags - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX184QG

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A picture taken on August 14, 2016 in a abandoned village near the southern Iranian city of Sirjan shows dead pistachio trees at a field that farmers left behind due to the lack of water.
The pistachio trees at the village in southern Iran are long dead, bleached white by the sun -- the underground water reserves sucked dry by decades of over-farming and waste. The last farmers left with their families 10 years ago, and the village has the look of an abandoned Martian colony. / AFP / ATTA KENARE / TO GO WIT

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