Iran president warns Tehran may face evacuation due to drought

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned in a speech broadcast on Friday that the capital Tehran may need evacuating because of water shortages if it doesn't rain before the end of the year.

"If it doesn't rain, we'll have to start rationing water in Tehran between late November and early December", Pezeshkian said in a speech broadcast on state TV.

"Even if we do ration it and it still doesn't rain by then, we'll run out of water, we'll have to evacuate Tehran."

It was not immediately clear how the capital would be evacuated.

Iran as a whole has been affected by dwindling rainfall, but the sprawling megacity of more than 10 million people is particularly vulnerable.

On Sunday, the director of the regional water company

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