WND EXCLUSIVE

IRAN'S FUTURE IN JEOPARDY OVER LACK OF WATER

Only solution: Do away with 'nuclear projects and the export of terrorism'

Bob Unruh

Iran’s steel industry production is reported to be down to 40 percent of its capacity.

Thousands of acres of valuable croplands there are dried up.

Two hundred villages in Sistan and Baluchistan Province have been abandoned, and in the next five years, no one will be living in the eastern areas of the country.

Dust is at 20 times the normal level in Khuzestan because of rampaging sand storms.

All the result of sanctions against the rogue Islamic regime? A product of those crippling limits on supplies, technology and resources imposed by the world to deter the nation’s pursuit of nuclear weapons?

No.

All because of the misuse and abuse of water resources by that very regime in its pursuit of those nuclear resources, according to a new report from Maryam Rajavi, president-elected of the Iranian Resistance.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran is a collection of Iranian organizations and groups that pursue democratic ideals.

It includes a parliament-in-exile that has more than 500 members, including representatives of ethnic and religious minorities such as the Kurds, Baluchis, Armenians, Jews and Zoroastrians.

Its aim is to set up a secular democratic republic in Iran that would separate religion from government.

Rajavi’s warnings about the nation’s misuse of water were posted just days ago.

The catastrophe the nation is facing is a result of a combination of dams and ditches that divert water for industrial or military complexes without regarding to nature’s balance or the needs of the population, she said.

The solution only will come after doing away with “anti-nationalistic nuclear projects and the export of terrorism and fundamentalism … and their colossal expenses.”

She pointed out that even the radical Muslims in charge now are admitting  the problem.

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“Issa Kalantari, adviser to Rouhani and general secretary of regime’s Agriculture House, acknowledged a few days ago: ‘Water is considered a recyclable natural element, but this is no longer the case in Iran due to excessive use.’ He went on to add: ‘We have around 100 billion cubic meters of recyclable water in the country and we should use 40 billion cubic meters of it and not any more. But today, we use 96 percent of this water which is a catastrophe. … Due to the unmethodical usage of country’s natural resources and water … most lagoons that are very important resources of country’s environment, have been destroyed and dried up in the recent years.’”

In a recent statement in the state news agency, IRNA, he said, “By using 97 percent of surface waters, practically all rivers have dried up and there is no longer any water left in the nature” and “in not too distant a future, around 70 percent of country’s population needs to immigrate.”

And the rogue regime’s energy minister, Hamid Chitchian, had said in a Jahan Sanat daily report, “Every year, the situation for water deteriorates and if nothing is done, peasants will lose their jobs, we will have more unemployed people that come to the cities, and most important of all, food security will be imperiled … 7,000 hectares of pistachio lands have dried up and the lagoons of Urmia, Bakhtegan, Gavkhooni and Hamoun have dried up.”

A short time ago a land mass of 80,000 hectares in Golestan Province was growing rice. A year later there were only 50,000 hectares. Now it’s 28,000, Rajavi noted in her report.

Drinking water now is in short supply in 520 cities.

“Shortage of water even involves sections of the country like Mazandaran with ample water. IRNA reported on July 4, 2015, that ‘Kelardasht in western Mazandaran – a county that enjoys many springs and a river like Sard-Abroud with lots of water – as experiencing an acute shortage of potable water,’” her report said.

And a parliamentarian noted the 200 deserted villages and forecast a complete absence of people living in eastern parts of the country, soon.

Even officials admit drought and “climate change” account for only a small part of the problem, with 90 percent “due to excessive usage, population growth and widespread industrial activity.

“One of the main causes of this situation is uncontrolled construction of dams in the past three decades. Right now there are over 550 dams in Iran. Five hundred have been mostly built by the revolutionary guards and 300 companies affiliated with it during the mullahs’ reign without due technical assessment. Building of dams is one of the main resources for plunder by regime’s leaders,” the report said.

“These dams provide water to a meager percentage of the agricultural land and provide even a smaller percentage of country’s electricity, but they have dried up most of the rivers and destroyed much agricultural land around the dried up rivers causing many villagers to leave their dwellings and come at city outskirts. Many of the dams have been constructed to bring water to regime’s weapons’ industry or nuclear sites.”

The bottom line is that “in some areas it has become almost impossible to access water any more.”

Parliamentarian Nasser Moussavi reported the steel industry in Esfahan is only able to run at 40 percent of capacity because of water shortages.

Lagoons and lakes that used to provide moisture for fruit and other products now are drying up, while other lakes are being filled behind dams that now are collecting increasingly salty water, defiling the area.

Just a few months ago, the government-linked Press TV reported more than 500 Iranian cities are facing drinking-water shortages.

At the time, Esmaeil Najjir, head of the nation’s Crisis Management Organization, claimed it was due to a drought.

The nation’s Energy Ministry at the time confirmed six out of 10 of the reservoirs behind major dams were empty.

The Washington Post reported about the same time that Iranians use about 66 gallons of water each every day.

While the use across America is higher, Iran, the report said, has precipitation “only a third of the global average.”

“Throughout Iran, landscapes are being transformed as scientists warn that the already arid country runs the risk of becoming a vast desert,” the report said. “Lake Urmia, a salt lake in Iran’s northwest that once was the largest in the Middle East, has been depleted to just 5 percent of its former volume over only two decades. The Zayandeh River, which flowed through Iran’s heartland, is mostly a dry bed after being diverted and dammed to provide irrigation for farms.”

Mehdi Mirzaee, a professor at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University, told the Post: “We’ve overexploited our groundwater, which is sort of a hidden water resource. People believe they can use it as though there is an unlimited supply. We are in a severe drought, but we could have prevented these kinds of problems, or least come up with a better plan.”

A report from Phys.Org cited a study by Elizabeth Canuel of William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science showing a series of droughts that have hit the region over the centuries.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/irans-future-in-jeopardy-over-lack-of-water/#AiPIroV5OzxcKKw0.99

My comments: Satan Rules the Nations but God Almighty determines the Course of the Nations. Men make their plans, but God orders their steps. (Proverbs 16:9)