No need to worry about Iran: they're killing themselves.

Apparently because of the UN sanctions stemming from Iran's lack of cooperation with IAEA on nuclear inspections, Iran restarted its own gasoline refineries, and are now choking themselves to death via smog...literally.  3600 deaths in the first nine months of 2010, from the smog, according to the Tehran Journal section of the NYT.  Though one wonders if that's a big deal or not, because from March 2005 - March 2006, nearly 10,000 people died from the bad air in Iran with 3600 in one month alone, according to the BBC in January 2007.

It's so bad, the government has been on a smog holiday recently...take the day off (or die?)

Image via NYT (Vahid Salemi/Associated Press)