[ilioscio]

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[more_corn]

Some nuance is that Iran is a big part of everyone’s knowledge of the international strategic landscape. Who they’re allied with, what they’re planning, what they’re doing in secret. It’s interesting to see that the capital city (which in this case may be synonymous with the nation) might be brought low by a simple resource shortage. Doubly interesting to see that it might be due to mismanagement and corruption. It appears to unequally affect those with power and those without. This shortage could well be the last straw. If the vast majority of the population doesn’t have enough water to drink and they see those in power squandering it in private pools and lush landscaping this could well develop into a large-scale uprising.

And if it does I’m not sure many people on the world stage (at least in the west) will lament the loss of the Islamic theocracy in Iran.

I suppose it might turn out to be historically notable if the shortage leads to an uprising, perhaps the first of many due to a water shortage.

Then again maybe nothing will come of it.