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Protests over<\/a> water shortages<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Iran are approaching the end of their second week, and\u00a0during that time they have grown both within and beyond the region where they started. The first demonstrations began on July 15 in the province of Khuzestan, where historic drought\u00a0had\u00a0helped to expose the full\u00a0extent of the regime\u2019s mismanagement\u00a0and wasting\u00a0of natural resources. As the protests entered their second week, solidarity demonstrations began to\u00a0be reported in other provinces, with Tehran<\/a>, Tabriz,\u00a0Zanjan, Lorestan, Bushehr, and Isfahan all being sites of substantial unrest.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of these secondary protests are equally focused on the original issue of water shortages, which are certainly affecting persons beyond Khuzestan. In fact, at least one Iranian state media outlet has reported that over a quarter of the country\u2019s 83 million people have been affected by water shortages over roughly the past year. Those problems threaten to continue proliferating in the near future since the regime authorities refuse to address the grievances that the people have been expressing en mass since at least the middle of the month.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered a speech on shedding crocodile tears for the residents of Khuzestan. Meanwhile, numerous incidences of shootings and other acts of repression have been reported throughout the nearly two-week ordeal, and leading authorities have certainly taken measures to deliberately amplify that response. The new judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei,<\/a> personally ordered the deployment of additional security forces, and Khamenei personally provided justification for expanded crackdowns by characteristically intimating that foreign \u201cenemies\u201d had a role in the unrest.<\/span> .<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon after the protests surpassed the one-week mark, Amnesty International reported that it had confirmed at least eight killings associated with the regime\u2019s crackdown. Days later, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran\u00a0(PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>\u00a0placed the number of confirmed killings at twelve and backed this up by providing their names and basic biographical details. The leading pro-democracy opposition group also stated that other deaths had almost certainly already taken place, though the identities of victims had yet to be determined.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A\u00a0funeral for one of the 12 known victims, 17-year-old\u00a0Hadi\u00a0Bahmani, had been arranged for Friday, three days after his death, and the event quickly became a rallying point for further demonstrations and clashes with security forces. Bahmani was one of two teenagers on the initial list of victims. Ages were reported for only half of the other ten persons on that list, but they are all between 20 and 30 years, a fact that presumably reflects the\u00a0particular presence\u00a0of Iranian youth in the ongoing demonstrations.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This in turn reflects the calls to action that were issued\u00a0by the Iranian opposition president, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, in the wake of early reports of crackdowns on the protests in Khuzestan. Mrs. Rajavi called on all youths to rush to the aid of the people of Khuzestan, especially those wounded, and that she cited government attacks on the protesters as the latest contribution to a large body of evidence regarding the need for regime change.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as\u202fthe plundering mullahs remain in power,\u201d she said, \u201cpoverty, unemployment, and disease will continue. The mullahs deny the people water, power, bread, housing, and vaccines to provide for the unpatriotic nuclear and missile projects and their warmongering in the region.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This statement referred to both intentional and incidental contributions to multiple crises, not limited to water shortages. Those shortages were created in part by the enormous influence over industry and ecology that has been secured by the regime\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Through its front companies, that body has\u00a0controlled\u00a0all of\u00a0the dozens of dam-building projects that have been completed since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. In many cases, these were undertaken either without advance research or expressly in defiance of expert warnings about ecological impact. Those warnings have been as marginalized by the entire regime as by the IRGC itself, while profits from such projects have been spread among the power elite.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Similar corruption was on display, and was the subject of other protests, just a few weeks ago when blackouts began being reported across large swaths of\u00a0Iran. In that case, the IRGC had been contributing to the proliferation of cryptocurrency mining as a means of circumventing US sanctions. The predictable consequence was a massive spike in power consumption, which left ordinary consumers without either light or air conditioning, while persons with ties to the government hoarded wealth that the population\u00a0as a whole would\u00a0never have access to.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To further this hoarding, regime officials and institutions have also taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic. According to detailed reporting from the MEK, the death toll from Iranian outbreaks of Covid-19<\/a> is fast approaching 350,000. The severity of the public health crisis and the regime\u2019s efforts to cover it up is both a function of the absence of certain interventions including an effective vaccination effort.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon after American and European vaccines became widely available, Khamenei banned their use, leaving\u00a0Iran\u00a0to rely on comparatively untested and ineffective imports from Russia and China, as well as\u00a0domestically-made\u00a0vaccines. Even so, the distribution of those vaccines has been inefficient and inequitable, thanks to it being entrusted to \u201cprivate\u201d entities many of which are IRGC front organizations. As a result, many Iranian vaccine doses have made their way to the black market, where they have become another source of profit for government-linked entities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each\u00a0of these crises is another potential contributor to another nationwide uprising like those which took place in January 2018 and November 2019.\u00a0Indeed\u00a0the Khuzestan protests and the solidarity demonstrations\u00a0are\u00a0potential precursors to just such an uprising. Lending credence to this interpretation is the fact that participants in the past two week\u2019s unrest have been heard to chant slogans that include \u201cdeath to the dictator,\u201d \u201c<\/span>death to Khamenei,<\/span>\u201d\u00a0and \u201cfreedom, justice, national government.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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