Resource Security Watch No. 39
A tussle over access to the Nile;
The nexus of climate change and immigration;
Lebanon's water woes;
In Iran, a building hydrological crisis
A tussle over access to the Nile;
The nexus of climate change and immigration;
Lebanon's water woes;
In Iran, a building hydrological crisis
Seeing Taliban convoys rolling down a highway might intimidate Afghans, but US defense planners should see them as targets begging to be destroyed.
The Iranians are thirsty. In the past few weeks, thousands have taken to the streets in cities and towns throughout the Islamic Republic to protest the country's deepening hydrological crisis — and the Iranian regime's chronic mishandling of it.
Iranian hackers hard at work;
Water protests...and the regime response;
Tehran turns up the heat in Iraq
For the second time in a half-decade, U.S. policy toward Iran is undergoing a profound redefinition, as the Biden administration abandons the "maximum pressure" of the Trump era in favor of a broad effort to reengage the Islamic Republic.