The questions and the Leader's responses to them are as follows, according to the DOE Public Relations.
Q: Keeping in mind that Islam stresses the need for observing cleanliness in personal and public affairs, what is Your Eminence's opinion on those people who litter public passages, or the urban and rural areas?
A: Abiding by the laws devised to orderly govern the society is at any rate religiously obligatory.
Q: Under such conditions that the country is faced with drought and deficiency of water resources, unruly exploitation of subterranean water resources lead both to collapse of country's lands and deterioration of those water resources. With such concerns in mind, what is the rule for those who dig wells in their own lands without obtaining necessary licenses?
A: Abiding by the laws devised to orderly govern the society is at any rate religiously obligatory.
Q: Keeping in mind the high significance of water quality in social health, some individuals (legal and real entities) let their sewage flow into surface waters (including rivers, ponds, lakes, etc.). By doing so such people cause harm to the residents of neighboring areas. What is your decree on such practices?
A: If practicing such acts annoys others, or inflict losses on them they are not permitted.
Q: One of the factors leading to dust pollution is annihilation of plantation coverage of the pasturelands, which endangers the social health. What is the religious decree on those who damage such natural resources?
A: Such affairs are subjected to related laws and breaching such laws is forbidden.
Q: Some people hunt animals just because they have guns and only for fun and as a pastime activity without obtaining required state permits. Besides the legal punishments for such practices, what is the religious decree on them?
A: Observation of legal necessities is obligatory in such cases and if the laws forbid them they are prohibited, otherwise all in itself, hunting is alright, but it must be kept in mind that hunting for fun and as a pastime activity is not permitted in religion. If all conditions for hunting are observed, including sharpness of the bullet, so that it will pierce into the animal's body, otherwise if it is not sharp and it kills the animal by imposing pressure, or heating, its meat cannot be used.
Q: Under such conditions that the air pollution is at an alarming level, what is the religious decree for unnecessary practices (such as using personal passenger cars, not using the proper filters that lead to air pollution, etc) that lead to further intensifying of the air pollution and harming the public health?
A: If the person who practices such deeds is not sure that by doing so he or she harms the others, practicing them is alright.
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