Iran, Turkey making Iraq's water crisis worse

Iraq suffers what can be called "Iranian water terrorism", as the Islamic Republic works hard to control the Arab state.
Water is a major crisis in relations between the two
countries, even as nobody talks about it at present.
Iraq suffers an acute shortage of water, one that
compounds its many other problems.
Iraqis accuse Iran of standing behind this shortage.
Iraqi Minister of Water Resources Mahdi al-Hamdani warned against a potential
drop in Iraqi water revenues in the coming period against the background of
Iran preventing water from flowing to his country.
He told the official Iraqi news agency that Iran had
caused an unprecedented drop in water supplies to Iraq.
He added that water supplies from Turkey remain the
same.
Iraq, al-Hamdani said, uses its subterranean water
reserves with caution.
We offer licenses for the utilization of subterranean
water only to well-known users, al-Hamdani said.
He added that his ministry had stopped issuing
licenses for foreign companies investing in agriculture, noting that these
companies would consume all Iraq's subterranean water reserves.
Future generations of Iraqis, the minister said, have
rights to this subterranean water.
International parties
Iraq called the international community last month to
intervene to rescue it from a future full of water shortages because of Iran's
policies.
In the last three decades, the Arab country lost
almost half of its water resources. In the last ten years, Iraq lost around 80%
of its remaining water resources, especially after Iran blocked 35 tributaries
that send water to it.
The Islamic Republic also unveiled a plan to construct
a number of dams that will make Iraq's water crisis even worse in the coming
period.