Tehran (ISNA) – World Wetlands Day and the 50th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands were marked on Tuesday, February 16, during a ceremony in Tehran in the presence of Iran’s First Vice-President, Es’haq Jahangiri.
The convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, named after the city of Ramsar in Iran, where it was signed in 1971.

Photographer: Mona Hoobehfekr