Did the Ayatollahs hasten their own demise by destroying the water system Israel built for them?

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Feb 4, 2026 · 8m

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With Iran and Israel very much back in the news, a different look at the massive crisis in which the Ayatollahs find themselves. Their economy has collapsed and people cannot afford to live, but to make matters worse, in cities like Teheran, there is hardly any water. The country has largely dried up.

What many of us never knew or have forgotten is that this is largely a crisis of their own making, a result of their own ideologically rooted hate. Israel, it turns out, built Iran a very sophisticated water…