Spread of the devastating scourge of land subsidence in today’s Iran, in addition to country’s other life-threatening crises, is yet another catastrophic crisis which is totally a result of Iranian regime’s anti-people and anti-national policies.
Land subsidence in some areas is so severe that it has reduced buildings’ resistance to earthquake to only four in Richter scale.
Damage to infrastructures, breaking and bursting of water and natural gas distribution lines, destruction of bridges, roads and railways, damage to utility poles, dwindling water supply and eventually drying up and sanitization of water wells and farmlands are among serious consequences of land subsidence.
The growing dimensions of this new yet devastating scourge, which is totally a result of predatory policies adopted by regime’s water mafia, are so huge that regime’s experts predict it could lead to evacuation of Tehran and other big cities like Isfahan.
The threats raised by the scourge of land subsidence in Iran will even be multiplied when we know that due to non-deployment of world’s conventional approaches for retrofitting the cities as well as lack of the least safety measures in buildings, Iran’s big cities now own the world’s worst and most dangerous infrastructures against incidents and urban hazards, so much so that of the world’s 43 types of natural disasters, 32 are currently underway in Iran’s cities.
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