Cheap Drones, Dry Taps: The Iran War Opens a New Era of Water Infrastructure Risk

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Iran has increasingly targeted water and energy infrastructure as strategic deterrence against the United States, with recent attacks on desalination plants reportedly tied to drone strikes. This escalates water infrastructure risks in the region amid heightened Iran-U.S. tensions.

Water and energy infrastructure have become one of Iran’s main levers of deterrence against the United States. Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi recently made it clear to Gulf states that if the U.S. military renewed large-scale strikes on Iran, their critical infrastructure would be struck. Iranian forces’ operational history over the past six months confirmed the threat’s credibility.Kuwait first reported damage near a desalination plant early in Operation Epic Fury, when debris from an intercepted drone struck the Doha West facility. Then, on March 7 and 8, Iran claimed a desalination facility on Qeshm Island had been attacked, and in response, The post Cheap Drones, Dry Taps: The Iran War Opens a New Era of Water Infrastructure Risk appeared first on War on the Rocks.