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Iran’s president has claimed Iran has no choice but to move its capital from Tehran to the south of the country due to the city’s over-expansion, the lack of adequate water supplies and the growing threat of subsidence.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/iran-must-move-its-capital-from-tehran-says-president-as-water-crisis-worsens

#Iran #water #collapse

the Guardian

Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens

Masoud Pezeshkian says subsidence is also ‘a disaster’ in city of 10 million, which consumes quarter of Iran’s water

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social replied · last week

@jackofalltrades astonishing. And now I find myself down an Iranian hydrological rabbit hole. Wonder how much things have changed since this 1972 map 🤔

From andrewgloe.com:

“Precipitation (rainfall) map of Iran (1972)

Credited to https://bit.ly/3v4Pyx5 (which goes to a Reddit thread).

‘Contrary to many people’s intuition that Iran is all desert, the nation is home to a temperate rainforest along the coast of the Caspian Sea’.”

The map shows 12 distinct bands of rainfall, with a large more arid region extending across most of the eastern two thirds, a notable exception being the band directly to the south of the Caspian. — From andrewgloe.com: “Precipitation (rainfall) map of Iran (1972) Credited to https://bit.ly/3v4Pyx5 (which goes to a Reddit thread). ‘Contrary to many people’s intuition that Iran is all desert, the nation is home to a temperate rainforest along the coast of the Caspian Sea’.” The map shows 12 distinct bands of rainfall, with a large more arid region extending across most of the eastern two thirds, a notable exception being the band directly to the south of the Caspian.

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