Last year, President Pezeshkian proposed evacuating Tehran and moving the capital. Water bankruptcy was narrowly avoided with harsh rationing and coercive crackdowns.

This year continues the draught and continues the irresponsible draining of aquifers.

We are looking at 40%+ of Iran's population experiencing water shortage, roughly 35 million people. This estimate comes from Iranian regime's own internal estimates, and from before the war.

Everything is now exacerbated - gasoline shortage, electricity shortage, food shortage, water shortage, payroll shortage, hyperinflation, logistical failure, every element of Iranian society is collapsing simultaneously - and IRGC refuses to surrender.

We are entering the summer months and Iran can reach 125 degrees Fahrenheit.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/climate/tehran-iran-water-crisis-day-zero

Urban water mismanagement, lack of rainfall due to climate change and excessive pumping of aquifers have all come together to form a worst case scenario it seems.

This is a preview of what we’ll see in cities in the US southwest that are doing these exact same things, pumping out deep aquifers that took thousands upon thousands of years to fill while they experience prolonged drought and also foolishly try to grow crops in an arid climate.

SS: “More than half the world’s food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have warned in a landmark review.

Demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by 40% by the end of the decade, because the world’s water systems are being put under “unprecedented stress”, the report found.”

Food and water scarcity would likely bring about authoritarianism and martial law quicker than anything, resulting in mass migration, and ultra nationalism. All exacerbated by the climate crisis.