Blame-Israel Strategy So Far Unsuccessful In Addressing Iran Water Crisis

Despite decades of blaming Israel for the country’s ills, the impending exhaustion of Iran’s water resources draws ever closer.

Tehran, November 26 – Officials in the Islamic Republic received warning again today that their approach toward resolving the critical situation facing the country’s aquifers, rivers, and reservoirs has not yielded positive results, calling into question the relevance and wisdom of an approach that relies in the main on accusing “Zionists” of causing the problems, and not in treating any of the actual root causes.

In a report to the Water Works Administration last week, infrastructure administrators repeated in even more dire terms their predictions that without drastic remediation policies, Iran will run out of water in the next several decades, with urban centers such as Tehran collapsing in as few as ten years as a result of over-pumping from groundwater, a prolonged drought, corrupt water management, and agricultural policies that irrigate inefficiently and emphasize water-thirsty crops such as rice, alfalfa, and sugar cane. The report further observes that despite decades of projects dedicated to mitigating the looming disaster by blaming Israel for the country’s – and the region’s and world’s – ills, the impending exhaustion of Iran’s water resources draws ever closer.

“The anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist strategy has so far failed to demonstrate its effectiveness in management of the water shortages,” the report read, in part. “The anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist rhetoric and operations, globally and locally, while in line with the values of the Islamic Revolution and in line with the wisdom of Imam Khomeini, appear to be the wrong focus for the field of water resource management in the short and medium timeframes.”

The report acknowledged that in the long term, the destruction of Israel – which the report, following Khomeinist custom, calls “the Zionist Entity” or “the Little Satan” – dovetails with Islamic Revolution axioms regarding pernicious Zionist influence and malign activities, including an implied assumption that Israel, or global Jewry, or some other euphemism that uses thinly-veiled, classic antisemitic tropes, has somehow engineered the water crisis in Iran, or at least conducted efforts to exacerbate it. However, the report’s authors make clear that those long-term solutions may bear fruit too late to address the water crisis itself, regardless of where to lay the blame.

Previous reports and regime rhetoric have accused Israel of stealing or diverting Iran’s rain clouds, dating back to at least 2011. Geological experts differ on how much time it will take, but industry consensus appears to predict that the over-exploited aquifer underneath Tehran will collapse – along with portions of the already-sinking city – shortly before the regime does, regardless of Israel.

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