Iran arrests protesters angry at giant waste landfill ...Kuwait

Iranian police on Thursday arrested several stone-throwing protesters furious at the failure of the local authorities to close a gigantic waste landfill, state media reported. Residents of the village of Saravan in Iran's northern Gilan province have been blocking the entrance to the garbage dump for more than two weeks, state broadcaster IRIB said. Piles of stinking rubbish at the Saravan site now tower some 90 metres (295 feet) high, waste from the provincial capital Rasht and seven other cities, that has been dumped there for nearly four decades. Protesters say the landfill is causing diseases and health problems, and demand the site be closed immediately. The land

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