Push for Iraq's Serious Engagement in Firefighting at Border Wetland

President Hassan Rouhani has directed the Foreign Ministry to push for greater cooperation from the Iraqi government to help contain a protracted fire at a wetland straddling the common border.
"Head of the Department of Environment Isa Kalantari recently wrote a letter to Rouhani about the continuing blaze on the Iraqi side of the Hour al-Azim wetland and problems arising from it," said Ahmadreza Lahijanzadeh, director of the DOE's office in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, where the embattled wetland is located.