Parviz Sarwari, deputy chairman of the Tehran City Council, said that "the mood of a fly" prevailed in the country. He compared the critics who post videos and pictures of the trash in Tehran's streams to sitting on "wounds and dirt" and said they were showing trash as a symbol of Tehran's waste situation.
The deputy chairman of the Tehran Municipal Council continued: "There is no questioning the extensive and managed efforts of Tehran Municipality agents in several fake videos. The publishers of these images cannot even be named.