The following piece was join authored by Grant Arthur Gochin and Karmel Melamed.

Tehran, November 2025 – The city’s five lifeline dams cling to 11% capacity. In the south, children fill soda bottles from tankers; in the north, black-market water sells for more than gasoline. Over 10 million people in the city proper—and more than 15 million in the wider region, exceeding the population of the Netherlands—wait for rain that forecasts refuse to promise. The regime’s response: a national day of prayer. The people’s response: a silent countdown to December, when the regime’s “President” Pezeshkian warns evacuation may begin.

This is not drought alone. It is the endgame of a kleptocratic theocracy built on hate, ignorance, and financial plunder—a regime that has diverted Iran’s oil wealth to fund global terror networks while its citizens queue for water. Billions flow to Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis; billions more vanish into the offshore accounts of IRGC generals and clerical families. The treasury exports death and division—arming militias, training operatives, and sowing chaos from Beirut to Buenos Aires—while aquifers collapse and pipelines decay at home. It even funnels funds into European and American universities, amplifying student groups that echo its anti-Israel rhetoric, while Iranian students endure blackouts and rationing. Ninety percent of Iran’s water still irrigates politically connected farms; 30% of treated water leaks before reaching a tap. The June 2025 war with Israel damaged a few pylons, but the real fracture is decades in the making—consequences of choices long foretold.

The water crisis is not mere negligence. It is the product of total incompetence and callous indifference to the well-being of Iran’s people. For the last 46 years, the mullah regime has never prioritized human suffering in Iran over its ideological obsessions and elite enrichment. While families ration dwindling supplies, regime insiders enjoy imported luxuries, unmoved by the misery they have engineered.

The mullahs have immolated the nation’s future on the altar of jihadist ideology, sacrificing prosperity for a delusional caliphate. Their corruption is systemic: they siphon from the poor to arm fanatics, preach austerity while flying........

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