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A major capital city in the Middle East will have to be relocated due to water shortages and overcrowding, the President has said.

Iranian leader Masoud Pezeshkian has said Tehran is no longer ecologically sustainable, and the 9,700,000 residents would have to move.

‘People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional,’ Pezeshkian said. ‘We can’t keep adding population and construction here. Expansion is possible, but the water problem cannot be solved.’

Warnings about the city’s water usage have gone ignored for years, and a drought has made water resources even more fraught.

Pezeshkian said it is possible to bring in water supplies from the Persian Gulf,

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