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NIC Predicts Water Shortage, Oil Glut for Iran in 2030

Barbara Slavin, citing a report by the National Intelligence Council, writes for Al-Monitor that by 2030, Iran may be perilously short of water and find it even harder to market its major export, oil, in a world with a substantial surplus of crude and more extreme weather patterns.

Barbara Slavin
Barbara Slavin
Dec 10, 2012
EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Women stand in line to cast their votes during the parliamentary election, in the court yard of the holy shrine in Qom, 120 km (75 miles) south of Tehran March 2, 2012. Iranians voted on Friday in a parliamentary election which is expected to reinforce the power of the clerical establishment of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over hardline political ri
Women stand in line in the courtyard of the holy shrine in Qom, 120 km (75 miles) south of Tehran March 2, 2012. — REUTERS

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