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🇮🇷 Iran was weighing evacuating Tehran over water BEFORE this war even started. Geopolitical analyst Ryan Bohl drops the detail that reframes every strike on the region's infrastructure. Iran's water crisis ran so deep before the first bomb fell that officials discussed whether the capital could stay livable. The...

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