Maybe they did. Iran, I mean. Blame the Jews. It’s a popular theme, and the Islamic State has endured one of its worst drought years in decades. An 80-95% reduction in the mean that mismanagement and abuse of groundwater has turned into a problem of Biblical proportions.
Is Allah unhappy with the militants of the Mullahs? Of course not. You have to bend like a pretzel to ignore the truth of Islam. It is a warrior cult promoting an intolerant theocracy. All the things Democrats supposedly fear from Christianity. You know, those crusades, which were actually a response to 400 years of Islamic aggression.
So, there’s no water. Iran is trying cloud seeding, which only works if you have clouds. Nearly a week ago, Western Iran got so much rain that it had flooding, and rain was expected in 18 of its 31 provinces. That wasn’t cloud seeding. It also puts a damper on the notion that the Jews or some other infidels were taking the clouds from the sky.
Climate change, of course, has been fingered as well. It is, after all, a change from the regular climate, so, depending on your definition, that’d be it. The the Mann-made global warming thing. Or, maybe Trump’s globe-hopping bunker-busting attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure had something to do with it. Things haven’t exactly been going well since then.
Or it could be the Jews.
Or yo-yos. In 1933, Syrian Moslem chiefs blamed their introduction for the severe drought that the nation experienced.
I did look at historical records. Not much to see except that this century has seen an increasing trend in drier years, assuming these records and reporting aren’t crap.
| Year | Rank | Precipitation (cm) |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 124 | 13.2 |
| 2008 | 123 | 14.6 |
| 1973 | 122 | 14.6 |
| 2010 | 121 | 14.7 |
| 2001 | 120 | 16.3 |
| 1917 | 119 | 16.9 |
| 2022 | 118 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 117 | 17.8 |
| 1990 | 116 | 18.1 |
| 1925 | 115 | 18.2 |
Iran’s poor water management has left cities like Tehran with water restrictions as,
…, decades of groundwater overuse and the absence of a comprehensive water policy have weakened the land’s ability to retain moisture. Under these conditions, even normal rainfall is no longer enough. Put differently: today’s crisis began not in the sky, but on the ground.
No satellite or meteorological evidence supports claims of “weather manipulation.” What is evident, however, is the erosion of water policy.
One more question. Is it enough of a stress to tip people already prepared for revolution to blame the government and act to remove it from power? And what sort of mess does that create in a region where China has a lot more influence, but it has water problems of its own?
