четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

Tehran on 'smog holiday' as dirty air keeps hold

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In Tehran's northern suburbs, 24-year-old Sepehr Shaygan is nursing a stubborn headache he blames on the smog. His mother puts on a surgical mask to do the shopping for a barbecue on the roof.

The family then peered out into a soup of yellow haze instead of the vista of cityscape and distant mountains when the weather is clear.

"Unbreathable" is how Shaygan described the air quality in Iran's smog-shrouded capital these days. He'll get no argument from worried city officials.

For the third workday in two weeks, Tehran was effectively shut down Thursday because of "unhealthy" pollution levels. Government offices, schools, banks, factories and many …

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