Water shortages could force evacuation of Iranian capital
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Iran says water supplies in Tehran will suffer scheduled cuts, as the country struggles with severe shortages. The announcement came after President Masoud Pezeshkian warned of rationing and suggested the capital might have to be evacuated if there's no rainfall in the next two weeks. Also: Bolivia and the United States agree to restore diplomatic relations - at ambassador level - after a 17-year break; a storm bearing down on the Philippines has intensified to a super typhoon; and Saudi Arabia's plans to attract 150 million tourists a year.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 9th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.0 | Water supplies in Tehran are being restricted with warnings that the Iranian capital |
| 0:22.4 | may have to be evacuated. Bolivia swears in a new president and restores diplomatic relations |
| 0:28.5 | with the United States for the first time in 17 years. Saudi Arabia launches a campaign to |
| 0:34.5 | become more popular than France as a tourist destination. |
| 0:40.5 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:42.5 | The label's like, |
| 0:43.2 | Ah, you are the persons that are going to bring the elephants. |
| 0:46.6 | And we are, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:47.7 | It's really interesting in the way that the community here engaged with the project |
| 0:51.0 | because it's about, really, elephants here? |
| 0:53.5 | Why elephants could soon return to the rolling hills of Portugal. |
| 1:00.0 | It seems an extraordinary suggestion. All 10 million inhabitants of the Iranian capital Tehran |
| 1:06.7 | might be forced to leave unless the city gets some rainfall in the next eight weeks. |
| 1:12.0 | Mohamed Ali Mo Allen manages the main dam which supplies the capital. |
| 1:18.8 | Unfortunately, we didn't have enough rain. |
| 1:21.8 | Rainfall is reduced by 90 to 92 percent compared with last year. |
| 1:27.5 | This has caused the amount of water stored in the reservoir |
| 1:31.0 | to drop to just 8% of its capacity. |
| 1:34.7 | And this was the warning from President Massoud Peschkian |
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