Sanctions Kill More Iranians Than War Ever Did

Air Pollution Deaths Reach 59,000 in 2024 — The Invisible Cost of “Nuclear Rights”

According to Iran’s Ministry of Health, 58,975 deaths in 2024 were attributed to air pollution — that’s 161 deaths per day, or seven every hour.
While local mismanagement and aging industries are obvious culprits, a deeper cause lingers: international sanctions.

Years of embargoes have blocked Iran’s access to clean fuel technology, refinery upgrades, and pollution-control systems. The result is deadly: toxic air filled with sulfur, dust, and unfiltered emissions.

During the eight-year Iran–Iraq War, some 200,000 people died. Yet over the past decade, polluted air — worsened by sanctions and the burning of heavy fuels like mazut — has silently taken far more lives.

Sanctions were meant to cripple the regime. Instead, they have suffocated its people.
And so the haunting question remains:
Was nuclear power worth the price of the air we breathe?

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