As Iran’s water crisis worsens and the regime fails to manage its water resources, a member of the Assembly of Experts claimed that the regime’s desired form of mandatory hijab not being observed in the streets is the cause of Iran’s water crisis, drought, and reduced rainfall.
On Sunday, November 9, Mohsen Araki said: “Drought, water crisis, and reduced rainfall are signs of God’s warning to awaken us from negligence and inattentiveness toward Him.”
He added: “The Islamic Revolution is built on the blood of martyrs, and it is not right that our streets become a parade ground for open sin, unveiled women, and public immorality.”
The Assembly of Experts member continued: “These behaviors have consequences, and a society known for its faith and Shiism must be sensitive toward such deviations.”
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These remarks reflect the recurring approach of Iranian regime officials, who instead of examining scientific causes or offering solutions to the water crisis, attribute it to “individual sin” and “women’s appearance.” By repeating religious rhetoric, they avoid accountability for mismanagement and failed policies.
In such narratives, technical questions and demands for transparency are sidelined and replaced by moral warnings and police threats.
Independent experts in water and environmental issues have emphasized that Iran’s drought results from a combination of the water mafia’s influence, climatic trends, and decades of structural mismanagement—including the expansion of water-intensive and subsidy-driven agriculture, overexploitation of groundwater, and lack of sustainable consumption models in industries and cities.
According to them, reducing this multilayered crisis to the issue of hijab not only lacks any scientific basis but also hinders the political will necessary to reform water policies and hold responsible institutions accountable.
Nighttime water cuts in Iran
As Iran’s water crisis continues, Abbas Aliabadi, the regime’s minister of energy, announced on November 9 that nighttime water cuts will be implemented across the country and urged people to install household water storage systems.
Ahad Vazifeh, head of the National Center for Climate and Drought Crisis Management, said forecasts show that no significant rain system will pass over Iran in the next 10 days.
Mehdi Chamran, head of Tehran’s City Council, also proposed holding a “rain prayer” as one of the ways to address the water shortage crisis.
He added: “People today have forgotten that in the past, people used to go into the desert, pray for rain, and they succeeded. Alongside all other measures for water shortage, we should not neglect this.”
On November 6, regime president Masoud Pezeshkian warned that if it does not rain in December, water in Tehran will be rationed, and if the drought persists, the capital will have to be evacuated.
In response to these remarks, Reza Haji Karim, head of Iran’s Water Industry Federation, stressed that the water situation in the capital is “more worrying” than Pezeshkian’s statements and “more terrifying” than official statistics suggest.
Experts say Iran’s water crisis reflects years of mismanagement, flawed policies, and the regime’s neglect in reforming key structures in water resource management—a crisis that now makes accountability and reform unavoidable.
