International Relations Researches

International Relations Researches

ISIS hydroterrorism in the Middle East

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
saleh salavarzi zadeh 1
saeed vosoughi 2
Hossein Mokhtari Hashi 3
1 Department of Political Science, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Isfahan University of Isfahan
2 international relation, isfahan university, iran
3 ،Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
10.22034/irr.2022.293194.1999
Abstract
The Middle East and North Africa are located in the warm and dry belt of the planet and despite living, about 7% of the world's population has less than one and a half percent of the freshwater of the planet. This region is facing two crises entitled: 1. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and 2. The other is the water crisis. The element of water has always been an important, strategic and influential factor in the political equations of the Middle East, and in this regard, the United Nations has referred to the water crisis in the Middle East as "silent ISIS". The purpose of this study was to investigate the aims, methods and consequences of ISIL's instrumental use of water in Iraq and Syria. The central question raised in this article is: What role did the element of water play in the establishment, consolidation and consolidation of ISIL? In answer to this question and as a research hypothesis, it should be stated: It seems that ISIL has used water as a tool for land development, extortion, extortion, and monetization. The findings of the article indicate that water is a tool and weapon in the hands of ISIL to fulfill its strategic goals, which is the survival, consolidation and consolidation of its government, and has objectified the concept of "hydro-terrorism" through conventional and unconventional use of water. Used in this article is descriptive-analytical and library tools, documents and Internet resources have been used to collect data.
Keywords
Hydropolitics
Hydro-terrorism
Water crisis
ISIL
Middle East

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