Iran says no Caspian state can save the sea alone, state-run Mehr reported.

President Masoud Pezeshkian proposed a long-term regional programme and cited climate change, oil pollution and habitat destruction.

He said it should run under the 2003 Tehran Convention, which he called the region’s most important legally binding mechanism.

The summit created a commission of deputy heads of government, Mehr said, but reported no deadline.

How each outlet framed it
Mehr News Agency leans favorable
casts the Caspian shrinkage as a sovereignty test, urging littoral states to resist extra-regional interference under the Tehran Convention

Sources: Mehr News Agency