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With Rivers Dry and Fields Dust, Iranian Farmers Turn to Protest
(AP-Washington Post) Nasser Karimi and Mohammed Nasiri - As water shortages caused by a years-long drought were worsened, experts say, by government mismanagement, protests in Iran have gotten larger, with bursts of violence. In farming towns like Varzaneh south of Tehran, the Zayandeh Roud river dried up years ago. The fields around Varzaneh are now stretches of salt-laced dirt. The cattle are gone. Around 90% of the farming activities in the district have faded away.