{"id":250129,"date":"2021-11-02T10:31:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=250129"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:39:39","slug":"how-the-irgc-profited-off-the-destruction-of-irans-natural-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/how-the-irgc-profited-off-the-destruction-of-irans-natural-ecosystems\/","title":{"rendered":"How the IRGC Profited off the Destruction of Iran\u2019s Natural Ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By: Khalil Khani<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under the clerical regime\u2019s rule, Iran is facing an unprecedented environmental crisis with diminishing water<\/a> resources, deforestation, rapid desertification<\/a>, and air pollution choking its cities. These problems, if left unchecked, threaten not only Iran but also the stability of the region and the globe. Environmental scientists have for years underscored the gravity<\/a> of Iran\u2019s environmental<\/a> threat and the seriousness with which the Iranians are approaching it.<\/p>\n

Tehran is consistently advocating<\/a> to prove that these calamities are due to global warming, sanctions, and persistent droughts, but it has to be emphasized that all such crises<\/a> are the results of extreme mismanagement, the plundering of Iran\u2019s natural ecosystem, and the oppressive rule of the clerical system.<\/p>\n

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Environmental stability is indeed national security, more important than foreign threats or domestic issues, as it affects food security, domestic stability, and economic growth. Now, the severity<\/a> of the environmental challenges is reflected in Iran\u2019s daily demonstrations, uprisings, and all aspects<\/a> of Iranians\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

It is important to note that Iran\u2019s many existing environmental challenges might contribute to threats on the regional and global levels, especially given the volatile landscape of the region. The effects of environmental degradation in Iran have already caused internal political unrest and threaten to prevent the country\u2019s economic and social wellbeing. If nothing is done,\u00a0it will certainly make the already turbulent situation in the country even less stable. Unhealthy environments, toxic air, lack of water<\/a>, desertification, and subsidence<\/a> of agricultural lands have the potential to prompt massive migration of people in search of sustainable livelihoods. This is a direct consequence<\/a> of mismanagement, plundering of the Iranian people\u2019s much-needed wealth for terrorism, and lack of government response to the basic needs of the population, which prompts the masses to bring their demands to the streets, as they have done in recent days…<\/p>\n

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Increased population, war, air pollution, water<\/a> over-extraction, consumption and pollution, unrealistic industrial goals, unsustainable agricultural policies, destruction of natural resources, and lack of enforcement of the existing environmental regulations have contributed to Iran\u2019s current environmental crisis.<\/p>\n

Aquifers are being drained<\/a> faster than they can be replenished, causing water<\/a> resources to be diminished, which forces farmers to leave<\/a> their villages. Thus, these migrated<\/a> farmers are being added to the margin<\/a> of cities and towns, putting more pressure on scarce resources. Air pollution has made living conditions in Iran\u2019s cities increasingly challenging, and floods<\/a> and wind<\/a> erosion are furthering the desertification<\/a> of agricultural land, creating greater production demand on remaining arable areas. Biodiversity is under severe threat too.<\/p>\n

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For the above-mentioned reasons, rapid<\/a> desertification is causing Iran to lose more than two-thirds of its agricultural lands. Air pollution<\/a> is so severe in Tehran and most large cities that schools, businesses, and government offices must be regularly closed because of dangerously high levels of particulate matter. Over 40,000 air pollution-related deaths<\/a> are reported annually in Tehran. Tehran and other large Iranian cities are among the top ten most polluted cities in the world.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s clerical rule stands in fundamental contrast<\/a> to democracy. It usually has no highly developed institutional guidelines, doesn\u2019t tolerate pluralism and social organizations, lacks the power to mobilize the entire population in pursuit of its goals, and exercises extreme oppressive power within relatively predictable limits.<\/p>\n

The Leadership of Iran, in tight association with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC<\/a>), has created a prolonged, self-promoted environmental crisis that is primarily<\/a> the result of incompetence, absolute mismanagement, and systematic<\/a> corruption at every level, especially at the highest level of the regime. This union has promoted<\/a> and practiced an intentional war<\/a> against Iran\u2019s natural<\/a> ecosystems, standard scientific practices, and experts\u2019 advice since 1979, the inception of the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s leadership has consistently pursued agricultural and industrialization policies with clear intention to benefit elite figures that the regime has sought to appease. The regime has accordingly diverted water and other natural resources away from ordinary Iranians and poorer communities, who have disproportionately suffered<\/a> environmental consequences like water shortages, loss of arable farmland, sand, and dust storms.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s policy missteps have given rise to multi-prolonged environmental crises, such as water<\/a> and power shortages, widespread drought, desertification, destruction of wetlands, aquifers<\/a>, forests, rangelands, the sinking of plains, sinkholes, and alarming air quality. Iran\u2019s environmental deterioration poses<\/a> a potentially destabilizing risk to the clerics, as it threatens internal cohesion, public health, and the economy.<\/p>\n

The clerical leadership has inflicted irreversible damages on the country\u2019s environment that experts fear will have catastrophic humanitarian<\/a> repercussions as the country is experiencing in various provinces now. Due to the regime\u2019s structural setups largely borne of corruption, the clerics have seriously failed to acknowledge the scope of the impending crisis, let alone the adaptation and implementation of vitally necessary corrective measures, which may already be insufficient and impossible at this time.<\/p>\n

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One of the most significant and lasting consequences of the Iran\u2013Iraq War was the empowerment of the IRGC. The war transformed the group from a hastily organized militia into one of Iran\u2019s most powerful institutions. The IRGC emerged from the crucible of the war as a formidable fighting force with considerable organizational and engineering prowess. Under orders of Supreme Leader Khamenei, the IRGC formed a civil construction and engineering arm after the war called Khatam al-Anbiya, which helped secure the IRGC\u2019s entrenchment and continued relevance even in peacetime.<\/p>\n

Every faction of the clerical regime sought to establish patronage links to the IRGC. As a result, Khatam al-Anbiya<\/a> began winning tenders and bids to build dams, railroads, refineries, harbors and expanding its influence in every aspect of Iran\u2019s economy. Mahab Ghods<\/a> is linked to Iran\u2019s largest charitable holding foundation, Astan Quds Razavi, a bastion of support for Iran\u2019s hardline clerical establishment, and one of the wealthy foundations under the Supreme Leader\u2019s supervision. The revenues generated from dam<\/a> construction help the Supreme Leader keep his core constituencies, the IRGC and hardline clerical establishment, satiated, incentivizing their continued loyalty to Khamenei.<\/p>\n

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Due to the challenges posed to environments, and consequently reports of their effect, the crackdown<\/a> on Iranian environmentalists over the years has put Iranian conservationists and Iranian biodiversity at even greater peril. In January 2018, nine Iranian environmentalists<\/a> were detained on charges of espionage, accused of using camera traps to undermine national security interests. One of the detained environmentalists died in prison two weeks later under suspicious circumstances, while the rest were held incommunicado and denied<\/a> due process for over a year.<\/p>\n

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Iran under the clerics is currently faced with the most critical<\/a> environmental issues in its history. Its climate lives, natural ecosystem, and its future as the cradle of civilization are all at risk. While the magnitude of that thought can be extremely overwhelming, we mustn\u2019t feel hopeless, helpless, or uncertain of where to begin. We are calling on the civilized world, environmentalists, and experts to stand alongside the Iranians and their legitimate resistance under the leadership of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a> to denounce the brutal clerical regime, which is not only the enemy of humanity but also extremely dangerous for the global environment and the world\u2019s peace and security.<\/p>\n

* Khalil Khani is an Environmental Specialist and a Human Rights activist. He holds a Ph.D. in Ecology, Botany, and Environmental Studies from Germany and has taught at the University of Tehran and the Hesse State University in Germany. He is also a Doctor of Medical Psychology from the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n

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