“Water water, every where, Nor any drop to drink,” from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a suitable motto for the Islamic Republic of Iran. With the Persian Gulf in the Southwest, the Sea of Oman in the South, and the Caspian Sea (an inland brackish water lake) in the North, Iran is surrounded by water, yet there is very little to drink.
Iran’s experts, of course, blame Israel and the U.S, for manipulating the weather (and the women who do not wear hijabs properly, ed.)and causing a drought so severe that the Islamic Republic’s president says he may “have to evacuate Tehran.”
