Tehran's reservoirs are running on fumes, with authorities warning that the main dam supplying the Iranian capital now holds ...

Iranians are further squeezed every day amid a tanking economy, an energy crisis, water bankruptcy and lethal pollution.

As CNN and the AP detailed, years of overextraction — policies enacted after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, during which ...

Explore the Tehran water crisis and its severe implications for residents and the government amid unprecedented drought and ...

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ...

Protests over Iran’s falling currency grew as they spread into a second day, increasing the pressure on a government already ...

President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, admitted on Tuesday that the water supply situation in all provinces in the country is critical.

Low water levels of Latyan Dam that provides water to Tehran, Iran on May 8, 2025. Credit - Bahram/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images Iran is a warning to every society that treats water as infinite.

Iran faces one of its most challenging water crises in recent memory. The capital city of Tehran, home to millions, now stands at the center of a potentially catastrophic situation that could reshape ...

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I look into Iran's ...

In an unprecedented move, Iran is looking to import water as an official strategy to confront one of the worst water crises in its modern history, Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi announced on December ...

Air pollution is the latest environmental crisis causing havoc across Iran. Large parts of the country are already suffering from a drought, one of the worst in decades. Its wetlands are dry, and its ...