#Iran: Severe water shortage by bad management. Mohsen Sazegara- Mohsen Sazegara is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist..Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
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🗓️ 21 July 2023
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#Iran: Severe water shortage by bad management. Mohsen Sazegara- Mohsen Sazegara is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist..Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66218318
https://wapo.st/3NWlJXL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/18/iran-drought-water-shortage-heat/
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| 0:56.8 | On struggling, this is the Washington Post Headline, most recently, as water shortages |
| 1:03.3 | intensify Iran's heat wave, authority shift blame. |
| 1:08.1 | What we have here is a water shortage throughout the country, and the Washington Post identifies |
| 1:14.6 | the problem. |
| 1:15.6 | The water shortages, which experts say are driven in large part by decades of mismanagement |
| 1:21.1 | are a long-standing problem, but they have grown more severe as climate change accelerates, |
| 1:26.4 | so we have a heat wave over the Middle East, and Iran has inadequate water supplies for |
| 1:33.6 | its whole population, especially in the southwest. |
| 1:37.5 | Most, and you dealt with this when you were in Iran, you've been watching it for years. |
| 1:42.9 | Does the government address this? |
| 1:44.8 | Because again, it's a persecution of the people to cut off, to allow water to be in |
| 1:49.7 | short supply. |
| 1:50.7 | Good evening to you. |
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