Reports by the Congressional Research Service from 2008 discuss emerging policy issues regarding carbon dioxide pipelines for carbon sequestration, network needs and cost uncertainties regarding pipelines for carbon dioxide control, and jurisdictional issues in regulating carbon dioxide sequestration pipelines.
Total numbers of speakers is high: over 40 million Farsi speakers (about 60% of Iran's population); over 14 million Dari Persian speakers in Afghanistan (50% of the population according to CIA World FactBook & Britannica); and about 2 million Dari Persian speakers in Pakistan.
Number of speakers: 246 million. Arabic, one of the worldâs oldest languages, is spoken in the Middle East, with speakers found in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt.