The Revolutionary Guards took his computers and his phone. In Iran, the elected government and the Revolutionary Guards exist as parallel power structures. In 2018 the Revolutionary Guards intensified a crackdown on environmental experts. Today he leads the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, often described as the UN’s thinktank on water. There is no water to pump, there is no water to allocate.”And now the war has buried the conversation entirely.

Source: The Guardian March 19, 2026 07:16 UTC