June 2, 2010 Editor’s note: The U.S. government says the danger
of depleted uranium is a conspiracy theory. An Iranian lawmaker
says the haze that arrives in Iran from Iraq is polluted with
depleted uranium due to the U.S. military’s use of the
prohibited weapon in the neighboring country. MP Mohammad-Mehdi
Shahriari called for urgent measures to prevent the diffusion of
the Iraqi haze over Iran. “This is not an issue that can be
easily neglected,” said Shahriari, who is a member of the Majlis
National Security and Foreign Policy Committee. “Everyone knows
that the United States has used depleted uranium during the
occupation of Iraq, and this has contaminated the Iraqi soil,
which arrives in Iran once in a while and pollutes Iranian
soil,” the Iranian MP told the Mehr News Agency on Monday. “The
results of this polluted soil will be seen in the agricultural
products in the coming years, it endangers people’s health, and
its harmful impact could be transferred to the next generation,”
he added. “Silence on th