The low-tech brilliance of Iranian design

These designs are so neat, I wish modern society would embrace the wisdom in them. Not applicable everywhere, but the modern desire to conquer the landscape instead of working with it seems like a core hubris that our modernity has imposed on our everyday life design.

About the qanats: Unfortunately there has been a lot of short sighted planning with respect to water resources: https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanat...

Based on the title, I expected the article to be about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

I stopped at "vile imperious war" I don't know how anyone can judge the moral of this war, bombing a country and civilian is certainly "bad" but doing nothing is while a regime has been oppresing the population for decade can be seen as morally "bad"