As CNN and the AP detailed, years of overextraction — policies enacted after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, during which then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini promised free water for everyone ...

Tehran's reservoirs are running on fumes, with authorities warning that the main dam supplying the Iranian capital now holds ...

Tehran is running out of water. Rationing has begun in Iran’s capital city, with some of the approximately 10 million residents experiencing “nightly pressure cuts” between midnight and 5 a.m. The ...

Rows of worshippers, some with their faces raised toward the sky, others with their heads bowed, prayed for rain at a mosque in Tehran earlier this month. Theirs is an increasingly desperate plea. The ...

Tehran, a metropolis of over 15 million people, is now regularly mentioned as a city that is nearing its “Day Zero” – the moment when a city’s taps run dry. This is not unprecedented for a major city.

Iran's president urged his government to listen to the "legitimate demands" of protesters, state media reported on Tuesday, a ...