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| The purpose of those arrested was to disrupt security and destroy property. (Photo Tehran Times) |
Several people have been arrested by the police for protesting against the drying up of the lake in Iran, which is considered to be the largest in the Middle East.
Iranian state media reported that the protesters were causing security disruptions by protesting the drying up of the lake.
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| Protesters were protesting and causing security disruption. (Photo Arab News) |
According to the United Nations Environment Programme, Lake Urmia, located in the mountains of northwestern Iran, began to shrink in 1995 due to a prolonged drought due to the extraction of water for agriculture and dams in the area.
It should be noted that the world's largest highly saline Lake Urmia is located between the Iranian region of Urmia and the city of Tabriz.
More than six million residents on the shores around the lake depend on agriculture.
Rahim Jahanbakhsh, the police chief of Iran's West Azerbaijan province, reported the arrests of protesters on Sunday, according to Iran's official news agency IRNA.
The Police Chief has said that the arrested persons are mischief-makers as hostile elements whose aim is nothing but to disturb public security and miscreants want to destroy public property.
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| Lake Urmia is home to aquatic life besides waterfowl and local prawns. (Photo Tehran Times) |
According to the information of Iran's Fars news agency, dozens of people protested against the lack of attention of the authorities on the drying up of Lake Urmia last Saturday in the Iranian cities of Naqda and Urmia.
I shouted that Lake Urmia is thirsty, the lake is shrinking, the lake is dying and the authorities have ordered to kill it.
Thousands of people have held several protests in the last few months against the drying up of rivers in Iran, especially in central and southwestern Iran.
It should be noted that Iran's Lake Urmia is an important ecosystem as well as an important habitat for migratory water birds.
The location is also a habitat for native prawns and other aquatic life.
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