Ausschreitungen im Iran Tödliche Proteste gegen Wassermangel Stand: 26.07.2021 05:41 Uhr
Die iranische Provinz Khuzestan wird seit Monaten von einer Dürre geplagt. Die Bevölkerung macht die Regierung dafür mitverantwortlich und geht aus Protest auf die Straße. Der Staat reagiert einmal mehr mit Härte.
Von Katharina Willinger, ARD-Studio Istanbul Mitte Juli gingen erstmals größere Gruppen in Ahvaz, der Provinzhauptstadt Khuzestans im Südwesten des Irans, auf die Straße. Sie forderten vom Staat Abhilfe gegen den akuten Wassermangel in der Region. Flüsse und Seen sind vertrocknet, Felder verdorrt, Vieh stirbt weg und in mehr als 700 Ortschaften soll es kaum mehr Trinkwasser geben.
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OVER recent days, an already tense situation in Iran’s south-western Khuzestan province, the centre of the country’s oil industry, has deteriorated further with growing protests by locals over breakdowns in critical infrastructure – principally severe water shortages – amid the heat of another sweltering summer and warnings that the country faces its most severe drought in half a century.
Protests have been directed against the nationwide water and power shortages which have acutely affected central and southern Iran, and Khuzestan in particular, and the insufferable conditions people there are having to endure in stifling heat – often in excess of 50°C including a lack of access to clean water and the dangerously unsanitary situation arising as a result, as well as increasingly frequent power blackouts.