In total disinterest of the European press, and obviously Italian (with our only exception), Iran is not only dying of thirst with the risk of exhausting the water reserves of the main cities within four weeks, obviously including Tehran, but precisely the water ended up at the center of a polemical clash and – according to the Islamic Republic – inspired by pure propaganda, with the enemy of all time, Israel.
“The thirst for water in Iran is equal only to the thirst for freedom,” said Netanyahu in a video addressed to the Iranian people, comparing the treatment that the regime reserves for their citizens to the struggle of Israel against it, affirming: “Your dictators impose tirannia and poverty – as war impose on us”.
While not coming to explicitly ask for a revolution or a change of regime, the Israeli leader offered a clear incentive to the Iranians to rebel: remove the regime and Israel will help to end the country’s water crisis.
“Here is the great news-he said-when your country is free, the best water experts of Israel will arrive in every Iranian city bringing cutting-edge technology and know-how. We will help Iran recycling water; We will help Iran to desalinize water ». “Israel -underlined the premier -has the technology, skills and willingness to end their water crisis, but that this help will only come when Iran will no longer be governed by the current regime. It was a direct connection between political change and tangible improvement of daily life, recognizing the daily difficulties of the Iranian people and at the same time putting responsibility and opportunity directly in their hands ».
The Iranian press defined Netanyahu’s message “a clear political signal wrapped in humanitarian aid”. The Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian, Wednesday, derived the Israeli offer by saying: “A regime that deprives the population of Gaza of water and food says it will bring water to Iran? A mirage; nothing else, “he said.
However, the declarations of the two leaders mark a transition from the state of war to a political comparison, which leverages a real and unsurpassed weakness of Iran. In front of a water crisis (already today the supply of drinking water are limited to a few hours, with a temperature of over 50 degrees and with air conditioners off due to the blackouts in the provision of electricity.
And the theme is even more delicate – as Ben understood Israel – and such as to make the protest explodes if we consider that the current water deficiencies are a consequence of bad chronic management, corruption and environmental policies; as well as what is called the “water mafia” a network of officials and contractors (often linked to the Pasdaran) that control water resources for profit purposes, promoting projects such as dams and water transfers that damage ecosystems and rural communities. With entire abandoned rural regions, dry wells for months, and an increasingly massive migration to large cities, chaos could have the better with an unprecedented destabilizing effect.
It is the case to remember how in the 60s and 70s – during the reign of Scià – Israeli companies such as Tahal, Mekorot and Ideal had been invited to design and build water and health infrastructures in Iran, in the city such as Isfahan, Bandar Abbas and Qazvin.
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