Blackened soot-covered buildings, cars and roads, plumes of thick, black and oily precipitation, toxic air inflaming the lungs, sore and raw lips, and burning eyes — this is what the people of Tehran and its surrounding areas woke up to last week. As a result of the US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s oil infrastructures , huge clouds of toxic smoke were released into the air. These hazardous clouds then made their return to earth in the form of lethal ‘black rain’ — and the situation is so dire it