The Iranian authorities point to climate change, but many Iranians are no longer put off with that argument alone. They are convinced that the government also has a hand in the fact that the country is struggling with drought and major water shortages in many places. Farmers, powerless without water, increasingly express their dissatisfaction or give up.
Dried up rivers, land that can no longer be worked, a rapidly falling water level, an irrigation ban and dry swamps, especially Iranians in the countryside are affected daily. There are provinces, such as oil-rich Khuzestan in the southwest, where often there is no water from the tap. It drives the residents to despair.
Protests are becoming more frequent, farmers come to town to voice their concerns. The demonstrations are often brutally crushed. It is impossible for the international media to attend such protests, but images appearing on social media reveal that things can sometimes get rough.
These are images from November Isfahan:
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