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While headlines often focus on Iran’s nuclear ambitions or its proxy wars, the real existential threat lies beneath the surface—literally. The regime that once showcased its engineering prowess with dam-building and water transfer projects now presides over a broken hydrological system. Rivers have dried up. Lakes have disappeared. Aquifers are collapsing.
As Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian bluntly admitted in July: “The water crisis is more serious than what is being discussed today.” He added that “Tehran is running out of water, and if this continues, we won’t be able to supply the city.”