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Every little thing helps

And doing nothing doesn't help. I don't understand some analogies saying that "dictatorship" doesn't care about nature but economy!!! I wish that this was an issue in Iran alone. Just take a Google search trip and look how fast trees are being cut in South America.

You want to develop a country that has no water to sustain the population and farming...What do you do? Here is the result of taking jobs, economy, livelihood of many workers vs. environment. It happens in all corners and neighborhoods around the globe including where most of us live, no matter where.
It's a tough situation but it's not the work of human alone. The global weather changes and patterns have a lot to do with this and we certainly don't (didn't) help.

So take results such as drying Lake Urumia that you maybe passionate about and turn it to what the big picture is. Actively promote all things that help our environment rather than business, even if your job is on the line, then we can stand here in clear conscience and throw our hate for development vs. nature. Otherwise we continue to be part of the problem and our Earth continues to suffer.

A blog on current environmental disaster in Iran....

would be a great idea.

Any volunteers?  

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

A Late Stage Malignant Tumor!

Lake Uroomieh is only a tip of the iceberg in terms of the monsterous environmental problems our homeland is facing & such is of no fiction matter. Our estuaries/lakes/rivers have been used for so long as the intakes for the storm runoffs/sewer discharges/farm wastes/chemicals/slaughter houses wastes/Etc. with little or none of the government oversights. This is the result now. The rest of the first comment was only a 'rumor.' Criminals care less where to hide their crimes evidences, anyways. Patriotism & big $$$ are sadly of no help here. Please take a look at US's success in spending Superfunds to clean up the country hazardous waste sites during the past 30 years. Less than 10% effective clean up so far!

A dash of patriotism can cure your despair

Sad to see some of the commenters here give up so easily on one of our national treasures, pronouncing it dead even before taking its pulse. In contrast, the patriotic Azeri protesters were hopeful, otherwise they would not have confronted the regime and forced them to take action. The nation is once again indebted to our Azeris for preferring action to despair, pessimism and self indulgent cynicism. And yet again they were proven right.

Tavana, in case you try your hand again at writing crime fiction, here's a hint: a salt lake is the stupidest place you could dump a body. The salt preserves the corpse.

Me too. Kudos to Tavana

for cutting through this pathetic attempt by the islamist regime at silencing our Azari compatriots' just protests. As for the $900m, I am sure it will eventually find it's way to the high end of real estate market in london , switzerland, canada and US for islamist regime's elite, with any scraps going to certain US based islamist regime lobby group/cult.....   

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

 Tavana: I never thought I

 Tavana: I never thought I would ever agree with you on anything. But here we are. You are absolutely spot on. The promise of $900 million is to pacify the sheeple. Nothing is going to save that poor lake.

Reform requires the consent of the corrupt

This is my answer, Sir...

"But creates breathing room for cooler heads to work this very complex environemtal problem." The Uroomieh Lake prbolem is not of the drought as the regime claims that to be. The 'dictatorship' cares less about the environment as it does the same about the economy. The said lake has been used as a 'hazardous waste' dump site for decades with a number of factories discharging their dangerous liquid waste straight to the lake. It is also a rumor that the regime has been dumping the dead bodies of its political prisoners into the lake as such it was the common SAVAK's practice during Pahlavis with the notorious 'Ghom Lake' near Tehran. In any event such funds allocations to rescue the lake is much too late even if it amounts to thousands of billions $$$. The lake will dry up soon with or with the cooler heads @ work.

In The News!

Three Iranians have been arrested by the Swiss police at the International Airport in Bern, Switzerland. The three Iranian nationals were carrying twelve suitcases full of currencies such as US dollars, euros and British pounds valued at about one billion US dollars. The three claimed their original destination was Urmieh, Iran and they had boarded the wrong flight by mistake. They said they wanted to go back to Tehran upon their release from police custody. A Swiss police spokeswoman said the money will not be returned to Tehran until further investigation. Meanwhile in Tehran IR Foreign Ministry officials informed Swiss ambassador in Tehran that three Swiss nationals had been manhandled by IR special forces in mountains in the northeastern region of the country while hiking nude. According to a source close to the ministry the three were carrying their belongings in their backpacks along with hundreds of thousands US dollars. According to the same source, IR Foreign Ministry officials suspect the money was to be distributed among counterrevolutionaries in the region. When pressed about the Swiss being nude, the source stated the Iranian side believes it must have been a Swiss-style camouflage. The Swiss embassy officials, however, called the idea of nudity being used as a camouflage baseless and added nude mountain hiking was a Swiss winter sport. They refused to comment on the money until they meet with the three Swiss nationals.

Pendar

Even if the people are silenced, the problem is not the silent type. If the lake is allowed to dry up 10 billion tons of salt will become airborne and settle on agricultural land. This would radically impact Iran's economy and demographics; millions will have to relocate. The political fallout we are seeing now will be insignifcant compared to what awaits our country if this environmental issue is not addressed as an extreme emergency.  Even more insignificant is bickering over who's a democracy and who's a dictatorship. This issue encompasses much more than politics, though its political component alone has enough force to break any dictatorship or democracy that fails to deal with it. To call this catastrophe "Iran's Chernobyl" is an understatement.

This is my question...

Can dictatorships bribe their people to silence? I know they do it in democracies.............