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Tehran Air Quality Monitoring Network & Pollution Emergency Closures

Revision 2026-08-20-source-dates · effective 2026-08-07

Current revision. This is the snapshot used by the live entity page.

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 1 claim and 4 source dossiers.

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  • add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.
  • add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.
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Claims, one by one

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Claim 1 clm-443d1fd1025e612e quantitative
a 2022 annual PM2.5 average of 36.11 µg/m³ — more than double the WHO guideline of 15 µg/m³
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The peer-reviewed analysis uses hourly data from all 37 Tehran stations (2019–2022) and reports the 2022 annual PM2.5 mean.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Scientific Reports (Nature) — 'Spatial and temporal patterns of urban air pollution in Tehran' (2024)

Source dossiers and revision state

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Tehran Air Quality Control Company (Tehran Municipality) with Iran's Department of Environment
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
Not recorded
Funding description
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Cost
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Ownership
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Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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4 source dossiers

Scientific Reports (Nature) — 'Spatial and temporal patterns of urban air pollution in Tehran' (2024) nature.com · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-8ae6d70ebfbe7418
Publisher
Name not classified · nature.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-10-24
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Carries the station count ('In Tehran, 37 AQMSs are operational, with 24 monitored by the Air Quality Control Company (AQCC) and 13 under the supervision of the Department of Environment'), the hourly 2019–2022 dataset and the 36.11 µg/m³ 2022 PM2.5 average vs the 15 µg/m³ WHO guideline. Fetched and quoted.

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aqicn.org — Tehran real-time AQI (World Air Quality Index project) aqicn.org · background

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Stable source ID
src-7b0ea6b8254a3c08
Publisher
Name not classified · aqicn.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Station-before-number check: confirms named ground stations (Imam Khomeini, Poonak, Pasdaran, Region 19, Shahid Beheshti University) feeding live data via Iran's national monitoring system aqms.doe.ir — not a satellite model. Fetched.

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Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
RFE/RL — 'Tehran Suffocates As Air Pollution Reaches Crisis Levels' (1 Dec 2025) rferl.org · background

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Stable source ID
src-1e4fdf85df55cd48
Publisher
Name not classified · rferl.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-12-01
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
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No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Carries the November–December 2025 emergency response — schools closed, truck travel banned — and the line that official statistics attribute tens of thousands of deaths across Iran each year to unsafe air. Fetched.

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Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
RFE/RL — 'Tehran Pollution Reaches Alarming Level In Latest Environmental Crisis' (29 Nov 2025) rferl.org · background

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Stable source ID
src-4837b7ce933e751a
Publisher
Name not classified · rferl.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-11-29
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Carries the closure of educational institutions and universities in the capital as air quality deteriorated. Verified via RFE/RL site-search summary; article body itself is a video piece.

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Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.