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◢ Iran’s economy was already creaking as two weeks of flooding devastated communities across the country, killing 76 people and damaging critical infrastructure and industries. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have been left to pick up the pieces at a time when economic pressures may mean that their government and fellow countrymen will struggle to provide adequate relief.
◢ In order improve preparedness for frequent earthquakes, floods, sandstorms, and heat-waves, Iran urgently needs to upgrade its surveying and monitoring technologies to better model and predict meteorological, hydrological, and geological events. The United States should create a new general license to remove the sanctions-related barriers to Iran’s acquisition of these much needed technologies.
Recent statements by US and Iranian officials have spurred debate as to the role sanctions may have played in the unconvincing nature of Iran’s response to unprecedented floods, which have killed over 50 people and caused widespread devastation. A look at Iran’s failure to procure rescue helicopters helps answer that question.
