The Caspian Kids

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadenejad claims European powers have created technology that allows them to steal the rain from clouds headed for Iran.

“According to reports on climate, whose accuracy has been verified, European countries are using special equipment to force clouds to dump” their water on Europe prematurely, Ahmadenejad said.

The Iranian president said unusual amounts of rain and snowfall in Europe, combined with a dry spell during Iran’s normal rainy season during the fall, proved his claim.

Ahmadenejad then cited “a certain politician, who is not an expert of water or construction” who wrote an article 7-8 months ago predicting a water crisis in the region within the next 30 years.

“This is precisely the area they [the West] are afraid of, due to the creation of [our] civilization and culture,” he said.

“This was not a scientific forecast,” Ahmadenejad said, “this is a premeditated event.”

While Ahmadenejad has been known for repeating wild conspiracy theories in the past, it should be noted that the practice of cloud seeding, a technology that has been in development since the 1950s, has effectively created and prevented rain.

The UK Telegraph reports that “moments after the Iranian president made the startling claim at the inauguration of a dam in a central province, it started to rain.”