Iran's Forest Fire Crisis: How Mismanagement and Corruption Are Fueling Environmental Destruction

Iran's Forest Fire Crisis: How Mismanagement and Corruption Are Fueling Environmental Destruction

As wildfires spread across multiple provinces, experts say decades of mismanagement, land grabbing, underfunded conservation, and climate pressures have turned Iran’s forests into recurring victims of a preventable crisis. Wildfires Spread Across Iran as Summer Begins Although the summer of 2026 has not yet reached its midpoint, vast areas of Iran are once again engulfed in flames. From the forests and rangelands of Morki village in Mamasani Co…