{"id":888,"date":"2015-05-01T23:26:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T04:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=888"},"modified":"2015-05-01T23:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T04:26:01","slug":"water-water-water-iran-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/05\/01\/water-water-water-iran-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, Water, Water: Iran, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier discussion of Iran&#8217;s problems in the area bordering Afghanistan <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/01\/water-water-water-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Now it appears Iran&#8217;s decision to be self-sufficient in agriculture may result in self-inflicted harm, according to Bijan Khajehpour in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2015\/05\/iran-water-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\">AL Monitor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Issa] Kalantari addressed a group of experts and reporters April 25\u00a0to highlight the various aspects of the ongoing disaster. He charged the country\u2019s politicians with being in denial of the true dimensions of the water crisis and outlined some of the key issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iran&#8217;s self-inflicted water shortage stems from its exploiting\u00a097% of its surface waters.\u00a0The international\u00a0benchmark for\u00a0surface water use is 40%, which by comparison points to the magnitude of water mismanagement in Iran.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The push for agricultural self-sufficiency in the past led to over-consumption of water reserves, which in turn undermined development.\u00a0According to Kalantari, a number of political stakeholders dismissed sustainable development\u00a0as a Western concept lacking utility in Iran.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The suggestion that self-sufficiency is threatened does not couple well with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanctions_against_Iran\" target=\"_blank\">current sanctions regime<\/a>, not so much because food is currently targeted &#8211; but because it becomes another exposure for Iran.\u00a0 This may be another motivation for Iran to consummate the previously <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/14\/the-iran-deal-roundup-ctd-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced deal framework<\/a>, as even the most efficient government can manage only so many emergencies simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier discussion of Iran&#8217;s problems in the area bordering Afghanistan here.\u00a0 Now it appears Iran&#8217;s decision to be self-sufficient in agriculture may result in self-inflicted harm, according to Bijan Khajehpour in AL Monitor: [Issa] Kalantari addressed a group of experts and reporters April 25\u00a0to highlight the various aspects of the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/05\/01\/water-water-water-iran-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}