Iran’s Taps Are Nearly Empty

After five straight years of drought, the country is running dry.

This landscape view shows the shallow water at the shore of a manmade dammed lake, the water greenish and calm. Beyond the water, a high hill slopes up, dotted with trees at its more elevated parts. August 7, 2025, 3:10 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Iran’s environmental collapse is no longer the slowly worsening problem that leaders ignored for decades. It’s here, it’s accelerating, and it’s threatening the very survival of the country. This summer’s brutal drought, layered over decades of mismanagement and the regime’s obsession with regional conflict, has laid bare a stark reality: Iran is nearly out of water—and almost out of time.

Iran has always been a dry country, gett

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