{"id":14307,"date":"2025-12-04T08:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:08:33","slug":"iran-water-shortage-pushes-new-strategies-and-spiritual-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14307","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Water Shortage Pushes New Strategies and Spiritual Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Mission Network News, November 21, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drought-stricken Iran added cloud-seeding to its efforts in late November, as a years-long water crisis comes to a head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there\u2019s no quick fix to the drought, even if rainfall surges. For example, rain did come over the weekend in the west and northwest of Iran\u2014and it led to damaging floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis drought is happening at the same time as years of bad management in the old infrastructure, and climate change. So, recovery will take a long time,\u201d says Edwin Keshish Abnous with Heart4Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranians are already struggling with daily life needs, especially in Tehran. \u201cThe general feeling is that life is getting more and more fragile,\u201d says Abnous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWater shortages have also an effect on health, sanitation, and food supply, which are all problems that hit the poor hardest. But despite that, we still see amazing bravery and spiritual hunger in Iranians who are looking for hope in the middle of a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heart4Iran\u2019s call center team sees God at work in even these crippling challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs things get worse, our team is getting ready to answer more questions about fear, provision, and God\u2019s faithfulness. Every time there is hardship and challenges in the land, the spiritual curiosity goes up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/water-shortage-pushes-iranians-to-new-strategies-and-spiritual-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story with prayer points<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the droughts and lift up the people who are suffering in <a href=\"https:\/\/incontextinternational.org\/2025\/11\/18\/pray-for-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pray for Iran<\/a> (INcontext International).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, November 21, 2025 Drought-stricken Iran added cloud-seeding to its efforts in late November, as a years-long water crisis comes to a head. But there\u2019s no quick fix to the drought, even if rainfall surges. For example, rain did come over the weekend in the west and northwest of Iran\u2014and it led &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran: Water Shortage Pushes New Strategies and Spiritual Questions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14308,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions\/14308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}