No, the IRI is not controlling the Snowfall in the Zagros. But it did control its water management and chose to fuck it up. The dams of Iran have massive consequences on its water budget. Once again, Sepahsad built more dams than necessary in place where dams were a net negative for the country. And they knew from the very beginning that this would be the case.
The qanat system doesn't need to be refilled, it needs to be maintained and reinstated. Same with any actual fucking protection of groundwater. Industrial run-off in Iran is treated like a nuisance at best.
No, replacing the Allah aligned ghouls with Shah aligned ghouls won't change much. Luckily, I am not advocating for shah aligned ghouls.
Getting crucial infrastructure out of the hands of a religious army might actually have positive consequences, believe it or not.
Building dams in rivers who do not have enough water to sustain dams might be a dumb idea. Who could have thought that putting the Revolutionary Guards in charge of Water Management would lead to catastrophe?
Take the Karun River: once the largest and only navigable river, the economic arm of the IRGC built so many dams along its course that people downstream had to be evacuated because the Karun just could not support their agriculture.
The Gotvand Dam alone turned the water below it from potable water to a brine solution 5 times as salty as the Persian Gulf. The IRGC's dam construction arm, Sepahsad, was explicitly warned that this would happen.
The IRI ran headfirst into a water crisis and is now reaping the rewards. They could have made their water system more resilient to climate change by reviving the qanat systems, but that's not profitable for Sepahsad. So they didn't.
The system of government is not the reason for sanctioning, but it is a reason for people's unhappiness.
During those protests in 2022-23, Iran used rape as a weapon, just like Israel did. They disturbed graves and funerals of victims of their own violence and intimidated those who survived. And to the number of victims, most estimates say more than 500. The state admits to about 300, but then again, that's the same state that told people Nika Shakarami committed suicide after she had been beaten to death.
The fact that Israel commits a genocide does not excuse the amount of violence the Iranian state is using against their own people.
I do not agree with the sanctions on Iran regarding important medical or food items.
The government has mismanaged its resources for decades. It's not just about the water, but also about draconian measures towards their own citizens, while their children party abroad.
Chugged some goals, nailed some Joes.