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© 2019 The Royal Society for Asian Affairs. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Asian Affairs on 30 Jan 2019 available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2019.1567100Peer-Reviewed
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Approximately 97% of the country is experiencing drought conditions. Due to gross water mismanagement and its damaging impact on the country, Iran faces the worst situation in water resources of any industrialized nation. Tens of thousands of villages have been deserted and most of the major urban centers have passed their limits to absorb new rural migrants. Some officials predict that in less than 25 years, 50 million Iranians would be displaced from their current homes because of the pressing ecological conditions. This is happening at the time that the gap between the grassroots and the state has widened and there is increasing dissatisfaction with governance plagued by corruption, nepotism, economic mismanagement, unaccountability and a foreign policy which has produced various regional and trans-regional adversaries. This paper evaluates the pressing ecological challenges in Iran and by conceptualizing political resilience it critically evaluates whether the Islamic Republic is prepared to face the devastating ecological crisis and its socio-economic consequences.Version
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Shahi A (2019) Drought: the achilles heel of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Asian Affairs. 50(1): 18-39.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2019.1567100Type
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https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2019.1567100