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As Aquifers Dry Up, Tehran Rations Water and Calls for Rain Prayers

Facing Iran’s worst drought in 60 years, the country’s president warned that the capital might need to be evacuated, and some locals promoted cloud-theft conspiracy theories.

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The parched bed of the Kan River along a road west of Tehran, Iran’s capital. The country is facing an increasingly severe water crisis.
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Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?

This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).

© Photo Illustration by The New York Times. Source photograph: Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times; Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

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