Iran president says capital move needed due to overcrowding, water crisis

Iran president says capital move needed due to overcrowding, water crisis

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that the country's capital should be relocated away from Tehran because of overcrowding and a deepening water crisis. Pezeshkian has raised the idea of moving away from Tehran before, with rainfall in the capital this year at its lowest level for a century. "The reality is that we have no choice. It (the relocation) is a necessity. We cannot overwhelm this region with more population and construction," he said, according to the official IRNA news agency. "We can develop, but we cannot solve its water problem." The Iranian president warned earlier this month the current capital could be evacuated without rainfall before winter, though he did not elaborate. Tehran nest