Dr. Frankopan is a professor of global history at Oxford and the author of “The Earth Transformed: An Untold History.” This month Tehran, a city of 10 million people, was questioning its viability.

The Iranian president has warned that Iran has “no choice” but to move the location of the capital due to the water crisis. Tehran is experiencing an unprecedented water crisis. Satellite imagery ...

Rain returned to Tehran this week for the first time in months, briefly breaking the city’s long dry spell. But despite the welcome showers, Iran’s deepening water crisis persists, leaving ordinary ...

Over the last decade or so, geopolitical tensions across the globe have caused an indirect but detrimental effect on basically every aspect of life. Media-wide productions, from talk shows, to films, ...

Tehran’s first rains of the autumn, rare so late in the year, have brought relief to inhabitants suffering from a nationwide drought that has caused water shortages and degraded air quality. On ...

A nationwide internet blackout was reported in Iran on Thursday, internet monitoring group NetBlocks said, as protests over economic hardships continued around the country. January 7, 2026 Who makes ...