Trump uncovers serious Iranian ecocide that threatens millions

In an unusual speech in Saudi Arabia, President Donald Trump launched a blunt criticism against the Iranian regime, accusing it of environmental corruption and aggravating an ecological crisis that threatens the lives of millions.

The president said that while Arab countries have turned dry deserts into fertile land, Iran has done the opposite. And he claimed that Iran's "water mafia" causes droughts and leaves empty rivers, while the regime gets richer and the people get poorer.

This is not the first time Trump has pointed to Iran's environmental mismanagement, the Foreign Policy news portal indicated. In 2018, he warned that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), through its construction arm Khatam al-Anbiya was accelerating the country's ecological collapse with unregulated dam projects that dry up rivers and lakes, generating unprecedented dust storms that threaten jobs and lives.

A tailor-made disaster

For Iranians, Trump's words come as no surprise: they are a belated echo of denunciations by activists and experts. The water crisis is a manufactured problem.

The "water mafia" brings together officials, ministers and businessmen who, under the protection of the Supreme Water Council, bend the rules to enrich themselves. In the eye of the hurricane is the Iranian Water Resources and Energy Development Company, which manages mega projects such as dams and water transfers, pushing the country to the edge of the ecological abyss.

This power alliance, which includes engineers and academics linked to the State, benefits from pharaonic works without environmental control. Public funds end up in cement projects that help neither the people nor the planet, but the pockets of a few, while shortages worsen.

Sinking earth, endangered cities

The damage is brutal. Official data from Iran reveal that 500 of its 609 plains suffer from groundwater abuse, causing the land to sink at an alarming rate, Foreign Policy revealed. In parts of Tehran and Isfahan province, the ground gives way by up to 31 centimeters per year, breaking roads, bridges and pipes. Aquifers collapse by up to 2 meters a year, in a silent but unstoppable collapse.

Isfahan, Iran's historical jewel, is experiencing a special problem. The Zayandeh Rud river, its vital pulse, is today an intermittent memory, diverted to feed farms and industries connected to the elites in Yazd and elsewhere. Far from betting on conservation or aquifer recharge, the regime continues to extract and waste water, condemning this iconic city to an uncertain future, where sinking soil threatens to make it unlivable.

Popular outcry and imminent exodus

The crisis goes beyond the environment: it is a social bomb. In regions such as Khuzestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, water is being diverted for factories and privileged crops, leaving rural communities without livelihood. The protests are not only demanding water, but justice and transparency. The government's response: deny everything and repress, sometimes with a military hand, as if the citizens were the enemy.

Without agriculture or hope, millions could leave their homes in the coming decades, many heading to the West, including the United States, fleeing a disaster that mixes drought, corruption and misery.

What are Trump's next steps

Trump uncovered the problem, but now he must act. Precise sanctions against corrupt elites and Revolutionary Guard-linked contractors could rein in those responsible without punishing the people. Supporting Iranians with technology - such as satellite imagery or systems to monitor water and soil - and promoting efficient crops and aquifer recovery would be key to rebuilding their country from within.

In times of less foreign aid, this is also strategy: avoid massive migrations and weaken the regime without intervening directly. Trump denounced corruption; now he can push a plan for Iranians to reclaim their land and their future, before disaster crosses borders.

Meanwhile, 'climate activist' Greta Thunberg heads to Gaza to aid pro-Hamas propaganda

While the Iranian government continues to destroy the environment while continuing to murder homosexuals and opponents, left-wing climate activist Greta Thunberg is heading to Israel in a vessel called the Freedom Flotilla. Freedom Flotilla is said to supposedly deliver humanitarian aid to the Gazan population, although critics claim that this is a manipulative ploy to demonize the Jewish state in its war against the Palestinian terrorism that perpetrated the October 7 massacre. In other words, that this is a way of collaborating with Hamas' propaganda maneuvers.