Plight of Iranian environmentalists raised at Glasgow summit
An Iranian advocacy group seized the opportunity of the UN climate change conference to highlight the plight of Iranian environmentalists facing pressure and prosecution under the Islamic Republic.
As world leaders convened in the Scottish city of Glasgow to discuss challenges and solutions on climate change, an Iranian rights group attempted to draw their attention to the hardships endured by environmentalists under the Islamic Republic establishment.
In a public letter to the summit participants, the group detailed how Iranian environmentalists are being “killed, detained and tortured” by the authorities. The committee urged the international community to mount pressure on the Iranian government to abandon those practices.
“The delegates from the Iranian regime who might attend the conference do not represent the Iranian people,” the letter said, adding that Iranian officials are destroying the country’s environment and should therefore “be banned rather than invited.”
The letter specifically names Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, whose tenure as judiciary chief saw “dozens of environmentalists detained and charged.”
