Those without hijabs are not the main culprits of the water crisis; the real culprits are those who build dams, dig illegal wells, and practice unscientific agriculture.

Shargh wrote:

Some claim that Iran's drought is the result of sins such as women's improper hijab.

If we simply consider women's improper hijab as the cause of drought and the destruction of Iran's underground and surface water resources, we are on the wrong path and overlooking the role of the main perpetrators of Iran's water crisis.

Over the past four decades, hundreds of dams were built without sufficient study, rivers were cut off, wetlands dried up, and the natural balance was disturbed. No destructive factor, such as the more than one million illegal wells, has destroyed groundwater aquifers like this.

The transfer of large water-intensive industries, such as steel, petrochemical, and mining industries, to cities and provinces already facing severe water stress (such as Isfahan, Yazd, Kerman, and South Khorasan) is one of the country's biggest developmental missteps. When the nation's scientists warned dozens of times that aquifers were on the brink of collapse and no one listened, this is a greater sin than what the pulpits preach.

Water will not return through admonishing women. Commanding good and forbidding wrong must apply to powerful officials and policymakers who, through their wrong decisions, have committed the real sins.