Iranian Vice President Shina Ansari used the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday as a platform to demand sanctions relief for the terrorism-supporting regime in Tehran. [emphasis, links added]
“We hope that (the) international community, free from political issues, will stand together, exchange knowledge, transfer technology and facilitate accessing financial resources without discrimination, and fully lift unilateral sanctions against countries, particularly the Islamic Republic of Iran,†Ansari said on Wednesday.
“However, we cannot forget the fact that the current climate situation of the world is the result of the industrial policies of (a) few developed countries and developing states shall not be deprived of their right to development because of what others have done,†Ansari continued.
“Once again, we emphasize that if this conference should intend to prove its goodwill in striving for a better future for all, while persisting on avoiding double standards to achieve meaningful actions by all countries to achieve these goals,†she said.
Ansari is the head of Iranâ€s Department of Environment (DOE) in addition to being vice president.
She was appointed to the vice presidency on August 22, 2024, by President Masoud Pezeshkian, ostensibly a “moderate†reformer, who scored a surprise victory in the July special election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi.
The DOE began in prerevolutionary Iran as a hunting club and was later concerned primarily with managing parks and wildlife conservation.
Later its functions expanded to cover some very real and immediate local environmental crises, such as Iranâ€s propensity for droughts and water shortages.
The agency has long been hobbled by the difficulty of cooperating with Western scientific institutions after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In recent years it has been remodeled into a sort of embassy to the climate change movement, a difficult assignment given that Iran is a petrostate that wants to increase its fossil fuel output and is also a brutal theocracy that does not tolerate environmental activism.
One of Tehranâ€s major complaints about U.S. sanctions is that they interfere with profits from the oil industry.
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Iranian oil production increased by 500,000 barrels per day (BPD) last year, a growth of about 15 percent in production. Iranian oil production increased by over 10 percent every year for the past four years.
Ansariâ€s complaint that “the current climate situation of the world is the result of the industrial policies of a few developed countries†is standard climate alarmist cant, repeated by every nation outside the G7 group of advanced economies.
Every developing nation insists that the entire burden of dealing with climate change must be borne by North America and Europe, even though the worldâ€s worst polluters are China and the members of the BRICS bloc of developing nations dominated by Beijing.
Anyone who still cares about actual environmental science should reject this line of thinking wholeheartedly because it is physically impossible for the Western world to do everything the Paris Climate Agreement demands.
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