Iran's water crisis at tipping point in threat to Islamic regime's stability
Iran expert Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi says prolonged water outages, empty reservoirs, and crop failures may be a recipe for ...
Al-Monitor5d
How unrest in Iran's Urmia exposes deep-seated ethnic fault lines
The situation escalated as stick-wielding government loyalists chanted inflammatory slogans against Sunni Kurds, whose ...
Rudaw9d
Anti-Kurdish chants in Urmia raise concern over ethnic tensions
Iranian authorities have placed the blame on a single individual for inciting ethnic tensions after anti-Kurdish slogans were ...
Rudaw9d
Kurdish, Azeri rights groups condemn ethnic unrest in Urmia
Kurdish and Azeri human rights groups on Tuesday condemned the tensions that flared between ethnic groups in Iran’s West ...
Tehran Times22d
Lake Urmia’s water volume increases by 80 mcm
Lake Urmia in the north-western West Azarbaijan province started to dry up in the 2000s. The lake is the largest in West Asia and the sixth-largest salt lake in the world, with a water surface area of ...