Masoud Pezeshkian called for mechanisms to hold the US and Israel accountable for the environmental damage caused by the Middle East war. (AFP pic)TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian accused the US and Israel of inflicting severe environmental damage during attacks on the Islamic republic, in his speech on Wednesday at the UN Climate Change Conference in Turkey.
"The recent criminal and illegal aggression against Iran by America and the Zionist regime... has inflicted severe damage on the environment, releasing massive quantities of pollutants and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere," Pezeshkian said.
He said that attacks on fuel facilities on a major gas field in Iran's south "resulted in the emission of approximately 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide".
