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Tehran taps run dry as water crisis deepens across Iran
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871043
- Ancalagon 1y agoI don't have facts to back my initial thoughts up but this looks on the surface to be a horrific outcome. People die much faster from lack of water than from lack of food. I wonder which countries will be able to provide aid because of the embargos as well
- LorenPechtel 1y agoIt's not like Iran is impoverished, why should anyone provide aid? Let them use their money to import water rather than fund terror all over the place. Aid makes sense when the locals can't do it themselves, but that's not the case here.
- AIorNot 1y agoYou can makes the same argument about the US after the flint water crisis tehran is a vibrant city of over 10 million people, Im sure a few of them are not terrorists
- hdheidby 1y agoYoure being down voted, because obviously all 10 million of them are in fact terrorists.
- knowitnone3 1y agoI'm glad you agree
- fakedang 1y agoTeheran has all these problems all because of the clerics. The city is insanely polluted. The waters are polluted, the air polluted, the vehicles aged and polluting, the works. Guess that's what happens when you have a country run by uneducated mullahs who also have a hand in the extreme exploitation of the land. For those not in the know, the clerics personally control all businesses through trusts called bonyads, which overexploit water sources for agricultural use (saffron exports, horticulture, farming, etc.) and manufacturing and industry. Heck, Khamenei's bonyad is the largest and controls Coca Cola bottling in Iran.
- hdheidby 1y agoFlint has all these problems all because of the politicians. The city is insanely polluted. The waters are polluted, the air polluted, the trains aged and polluting, the works. Guess that's what happens when you have a country run by uneducated democrats and republicans who also have a hand in the extreme exploitation of the land. For those not in the know, the bureaucracy controls all businesses through trusts overregulation, which overexploit water sources for financialization use (ai, bitcoin, fracking, etc.) and manufacturing and industry. Heck, blackrock is the largest and controls almost everything in america.
- LorenPechtel 1y agoFlint is what happens to blue cities in red states.
- fakedang 1y agoStrong Aladdeen energy! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vm7dIAq7QwM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vm7dIAq7QwM
- ssl-3 1y agoHow much international aid was sent in to help Flint with their water crisis?
- LorenPechtel 1y agoAnd was anyone asking for international aid with Flint?? And I never said the people were terrorists. I said the government was spending money on terrorists rather than the basic needs of the population. They have the money, they just don't want to spend it. I see no reason anyone should help them.
- skinnymuch 1y ago[flagged]
- Modified3019 1y agoIt’s a long watch/listen, but this is a good overview of what’s gone wrong, and why it’s basically unfixable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qL0IWvliqc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qL0IWvliqc Resources have been literally drained to nothing, the population is too high to reduce demand, and the government is too corrupt to do anything. Iran is absolutely fucked.
- more_corn 1y agoPerhaps the people will rise up and “vote” their leaders out with a rebellion. A thing we should all keep in mind about democracy is that it’s the pressure release valve that allows citizens to remove their unpopular leadership without bloodshed. Lack of democracy doesn’t mean citizens won’t rise up it just means more destruction and chaos when they do.
- netsharc 1y agoI wonder when the people living in the home of the brave will finally say "enough" to the pussy-grabbing of their "greatest democracy in the world"...
- netsharc 1y agoMan, good content, but I can't stand the blowhardness... This comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHLOiRq9uTY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHLOiRq9uTY
- Modified3019 1y agoWith that I agree. I find watching at 1.25-2x speed tends to smooth over a lot of speaking styles and ticks I’d otherwise find insufferable while helping save time.
- knowitnone3 1y ago[flagged]
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