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Shiva Bakhtiari

Shiva Bakhtiari is an Iranian researcher and member of the Biofuel Research Team based at the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran.

(FILES) Iranian women look at the "Si-o-Se Pol" bridge (33 arches bridge) on Zayandeh Rud river in Isfahan 13 July 2002. A young French tourist has been shot dead by a known criminal in the Iranian city of Isfahan, one of the country's main tourist draws, the Fars news agency reported 10 December 2007. AFP PHOTO/Behrouz MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

Esfahan’s bridges to history threatened by development, neglect

Shiva Bakhtiari

Shiva Bakhtiari

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Motorists travel on a highway in Tehran as the city is covered in dust July 6, 2009. The government closed private educational centres, state offices, industrial units and military bases for two days and raised its pollution alert status due to the dust, which an official from Tehran's environment office attributed the source to dust from dried marshland in Iraq blown towar

Iran may turn to biofuels amid worsening pollution

Shiva Bakhtiari

Shiva Bakhtiari

An Iranian artist shows his art work, a grain of rice with a sentence from the Koran written on it, at the annual International Koran Exhibition in Tehran October 24, 2004. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl MN/GB - RTRE1VH

The return of Iran’s agricultural sector

Shiva Bakhtiari

Shiva Bakhtiari