It is. More devastating and stealthy. Who knows, maybe the deserts will bloom in the gulf too.
**No, this is not true.** It's a **conspiracy theory** that's currently circulating heavily on social media (especially pro-Iran accounts on Threads, X, Instagram, etc.).
### What the post claims:
- Iran suffered **13 years of continuous drought**.
- The Iranian government has long accused the US and Israel of using **"weather weapons"** to cause it.
- After Iran "blew up massive US radar arrays" (during the recent conflict), it suddenly started raining heavily, refilling reservoirs.
- Therefore, the government was "right" all along.
### The facts:
1. **Iran has faced severe drought**, but **not 13 years without any rain**.
Iran has been experiencing a **multi-year severe drought** (roughly 5–6 years of particularly bad conditions as of 2025–2026), worsened by climate change, massive overuse of water for agriculture, poor water management, dam issues, and population growth. Rainfall has been significantly below average in recent years, especially in 2025. However, it has never been completely rain-free for 13 straight years.
2. **Recent rainfall is real**
There have been reports of significant rainfall and even late-April snowfall/flooding in parts of Iran in April 2026, which helped some reservoirs. This is welcome relief after a very dry period.
3. **The causal link is pure conspiracy**
There is **zero credible evidence** that the US or Israel used "weather weapons" or radar arrays to suppress rain in Iran.
Iran has been making similar accusations for many years (e.g., "cloud theft" or "rain stealing" by Israel/UAE since at least 2018). These claims are widely regarded as a way for the Iranian government to deflect blame from its own serious **water mismanagement** problems.
4. **"Weather weaponization" via radar**
Modern military radars (like the ones reportedly hit) do **not** control weather. Cloud seeding (which Iran itself uses) can have very limited local effects at best, but it cannot cause or prevent large-scale, long-term droughts across an entire country.
### Bottom line:
- The rain is real and good news for Iran.
- The timing being linked to the destruction of US radar arrays is **classic post-hoc conspiracy thinking** ("We did X, then Y happened, therefore X caused Y").
- Iran’s long-term water crisis is primarily caused by climate change + chronic mismanagement and over-extraction of water, not foreign weather weapons.
This narrative is popular right now because it fits a "resistance" storyline, but it has no scientific or factual basis.
---------- Source : Grok AI