The water crisis in Iraq I have written about here in the past is getting worse. Yesterday in a rather unusual move the Iraqi water resources minister spoke out openly against Iran and claimed that it had completely stopped the flow of water in the rivers that pass through the country’s territory.

He claimed that Turkey had also reduced the flow in the rivers but it at least updated Baghdad.

Minister Mahdi al-Hamdani added that Iraq has formulated a comprehensive plan to solve the water problem by 2035. The problem is that the scope of investments in it is supposed to be between $50 and 75 billion, but Iraq does not have these sums...