It has a young, educated, entrepreneurial population, four seas’ worth of trade access, and a civilization’s inheritance of irrigation engineering. Why #Iran Is Running Out of Water, Power — and Patiencehttps://t.co/9ZghlJCNpO — NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 13, 2025Against that, wages. The IMF expects the economy to contract by about 6.1 percent this year with inflation averaging near 69 percent. What the country got in exchange is an ecological verdict: by the government’s own data, 500 of Iran’s 609 plains are critically depleted. Iran’s National Cartographic Centre has recorded up to 31 centimeters a year in places; international engineering practice raises alarms at five millimeters.