Bloomberg reports: Toxic deposition and soil pollution caused by the US-Israeli strike on Iran will persist for decades, with extremely serious long-term ecological impacts.
Dagmar W. Wilson, director of the Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS), said, "We always see attacks on oil facilities during conflicts, but they rarely are as close to a megacity like Tehran as this time."
During the escalation of the Middle East conflict, the organization has recorded more than 300 environmental risk incidents related to military operations.
The report states that missiles and bombs contain heavy metals and other toxic substances, which enter the air, soil, and water after explosions, leading to pollution that can last for decades, seriously endangering human health.
Wilson said that Israel's attack on an oil depot outside Tehran is the largest environmental pollution incident in this war so far.
David González, associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, emphasized that the consequences of the oil depot attack will directly affect the respiratory health of citizens, with children and pregnant women being particularly at risk.
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