Targeting Iran’s Fragile Water Infrastructure Puts the Whole Region in Danger

Foreign Policy -March 9th2026

By Nik Kowsar, an award-winning Iranian American journalist and water issues analyst, and Alireza Nader, an independent scholar of Iran and the Middle East.

For decades, the world has viewed conflict in the Middle East through a familiar lens: the price of oil, the range of missiles, and the sterile language of deterrence. But the most dangerous threshold in the current war may lie elsewhere. The infrastructure that keeps civilians alive by providing water, power, and sanitation is now a target of American airpower.

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