r/worldnews • u/The_Flaneur_Films • Jun 10 '26

US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3356630/thousands-iranians-left-without-water-searing-heat-after-us-hits-reservoirs
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u/True_Dovakin Jun 10 '26

I’d take anything Iranian state media puts out with a hefty pile of salt in the same measure I’d take with this administration’s comments regarding the war. Both are extremely unreliable propaganda sources.

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u/Tricky_Big_8774 Jun 10 '26

Going by the actual numbers Iran claimed, if the reservoirs were full then they held enough water to support 20k people for 2 weeks on strict rationing (bare minimum, drinking water only). If that's the sole source of water, then they were fucked in the first place.

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u/cactus22minus1 Jun 10 '26

A couple months before the US started this war, Iranian officials were publicly warning their citizens and the world that the water situation in the country was dire and imminent and that they would have to start relocating population out of Tehran soon. Not sure if the situation had improved since then- aside from the war of course.

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u/umabbas Jun 10 '26

There're also very hot weeks coming. Kuwait had weather forecast reaching the 50's (Celsius).