Iran’s new president, Ebrahim Raisi, faces challenges from covid, water shortages and protests

“The water disaster is straight tied to folks’s livelihoods,” mentioned Ebrahim Bakhshi, a human rights activist initially from Khuzestan and who now lives in exile. His household left the province greater than a decade in the past, largely due to water and air air pollution, he mentioned. Over time, fertile soil has been diverted from the area, and dam-building has dried out its palm groves. Extra lately, water buffaloes have been dying off in giant numbers, he mentioned.