Posted on 11/22/2025 12:52:55 PM PST by Salman
Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said.
The situation in Tehran is the result of “a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,” says Michael Rubin, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
“We no longer have a choice,” said Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during a speech on Thursday.
Instead Iranian officials are considering moving the capital to the country’s southern coast. But experts say the proposal does not change the reality for the nearly 10 million people who live in Tehran and are now suffering the consequences of a decades-long decline in water supply.
Since at least 2008, scientists have warned that unchecked groundwater pumping for the city and for agriculture was rapidly draining the country’s aquifers. The overuse did not just deplete underground reserves—it destroyed them, as the land compressed and sank irreversibly. One recent study found that Iran’s central plateau, where most of the country’s aquifers are located, is sinking by more than 35 centimeters each year. As a result, the aquifers lose about 1.7 billion cubic meters of water annually as the ground is permanently crushed, leaving no space for underground water storage to recover, says Darío Solano, a geoscientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who was not involved with the study.
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Or, God at work.
The American Enterprise Institute has somebody on their staff talking about “climate change”?
omg.
Fire them.
Now.
Maybe if Iran devoted more resources to building reservoirs and aqueducts instead of weapons grade nuclear material, they wouldn’t be in such a mess. Just my opinion.
Kansas?
They built lots of dams and reservoirs. Mostly in the wrong places and Injunctions due to corruption. Huge amount of water was diverted to a massive steel plant run by the IRGC.
Maybe some of their secret underground nuke sights have been hit by Israel and a radioactive nightmare is emerging.
Inshallah!
Damn.
Wrong places and reasons…
has zero to do with “climate change”: Iran would have all the potable water they’d ever need if the Mullahs had built industrial reverse osmosis systems with even a tiny fraction of the hundreds of billions their regime spent on trying to destroy Israel and build nukes ...
I hear they might like Minneapolis.
“building reservoirs and aqueducts”
iran has hundreds of reservoirs and aqueducts, just no rain to fill them ... they needed to build reverse osmosis systems like Israel and Saudi Arabia did, instead of pissing away hundreds of billions of dollars on trying to destroy Israel and build nukes ...
Ummm...I seem to remember our Air Force bombers and Navy missiles took out the Iranian nuke sites. Those were brave Americans, not Israelis.
The ancient Persian mukmuks lived in Susa half the year, and then moved to nicer-in-the-summer Ctesiphon—which would be a good idea, except that it’s about 100 miles south of Baghdad, so they would be caught between Iraq and a hard place.
What they will probably do is move to Bushehr, which would be like moving the US capital to Palm Beach because it’s next to the ocean and Mar-a-Lago is there.
The country is run by idiot old men.
Building a huge city in a semi-arid place.
Like Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas?
Inshallah...
Why? The climate has always changed, it’s stupid to deny it.
Equally stupid to claim that humans have anything to do with it. See “Nature”.
Context is critical.
In 2025 when an “expert” uses the term “climate change” they mean it is our fault and we need to pay the price for it.
Minnesota.
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