• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    people in power are myopic and prioritize short term benefice over long term thonking

    I’m not sure “maintaining adequate levels of domestic crop yield” is a short-term benefit. They’re stretched for water because they’re in a historic drought during a climate catastrophe. This is a no-win situation, exacerbated by the constant threat of military invasion by nuclear superpowers and their rabid fascist local proxies.

    The Iranian government can’t summon rain from the heavens any easier than their Saudi or Qatari neighbors. Those states just have the benefit of access to western markets and engineering firms for enormous desalination plants. Meanwhile, Iranians’ energy infrastructure - necessary to run the pumps and pipelines that irrigate much of the country - have been subject to repeated bombardment by Israeli and US aircraft. Most notably, their civilian nuclear program was crippled by Trump’s B-2 bombing run in June. But this is just the tail end of the damage inflicted by the eleven day shootout with Israel.

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      And yet other articles were blaming corruption and cronyism for not adequately limiting water used for agriculture

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        1 hour ago

        Western Press do be like that. The Saudi government is experiencing the same water crisis, but somehow remains beyond repute.

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        I hughly doubt their uranium is civilian

        It is at least as civilian as any French nuclear plant. To date, there is no evidence of plutonium enrichment or bomb construction, which is more than can be said of their Israeli neighbors.