Iranian President Suggests to Move the Capital Out of Tehran
Azadi Tower is the most representative monument of the city of Tehran, Iran. Photo: X/ @Meteovargas
September 8, 2024 Hour: 5:48 pm
The new Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian have said the capital of the nation should be transferred from Tehran to a city closer to the country’s south coast.
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In a speech on Saturday Pezeshkian suggested that it is pointless to keep developing Tehran due to the numerous difficulties faced by the city. He said the current capital often plagued by “water shortages, land subsidence and air pollution,” among other things, he said, as cited by the news outlet Javan Online.
“Tehran as the capital of the country is facing problems to which we have no solution,” the president acknowledged, suggesting that the best way out would be to “relocate the political and economic center of the country.
Pezeshkian argued that Simply telling residents that they should move out of Tehran will not work, and the government “must first go ourselves so that the people would follow us.”
He also stressed that here are also economic reasons for finding a new capital closer to the Persian Gulf, through which key trading routes pass. “Further development of the country is impossible with the continuation of the current trend, when we bring the resources from the south of the country and the sea to the center.”
Such a state of affairs “severely depreciates and reduces our competitiveness, and we have no other choice but to transfer the economic and political center of the country to the south and closer to the sea,” he insisted.
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: RT