Did Iran just destroy a US-Israel ‘weather weapon’, ending its drought? Viral conspiracy explained

Several pro-Iranian accounts on X (formerly Twitter) have claimed that Iran’s weather has changed drastically after the country allegedly destroyed a “secret cloud-seeding and weather-modification centre” in the UAE.

According to one such post, “Iraq and Iran suddenly get heavy rain every single week. Temperatures dropped a full 5°C.”

“Iran’s devastating drought is over. Floods have returned so strongly that the government had been planning to move the capital from Tehran because of water shortages. That centre wasn’t just research — it was designed to destroy agriculture and livestock in Iran and Iraq by triggering artificial drought and desertification,” the post added.



Iran has indeed been grappling with water scarcity for years. According to the World Resources Institute, the country is facing “water bankruptcy” due to five consecutive years of drought and unsustainable water use.

“Just last year, the capital, Tehran, came close to running out of water. Farmers took to the streets to protest shortages and alleged mismanagement,” the institute noted in a report earlier this March.

The WRI attributes the crisis primarily to Iran’s naturally arid climate, limited water resources, and years of poor water management.

However, Iran has long accused Israel and the United States of engaging in weather modification that allegedly worsened drought conditions. In the past, Iranian officials have even claimed “cloud and snow theft.”

More recently, some pro-Iranian websites have suggested that the destruction of U.S. military systems — including THAAD missile defence and an AN/FPS-132 early warning radar in Qatar — disrupted a supposed regional “weather manipulation network.”


“Weather is completely changed in Iran now. Massive rains, snow, and temperatures have dropped significantly. Why? Because there’s no more weather engineering after American radars were destroyed in the region,” one such post claimed.

However, a fact-check by X’s AI system Grok labelled these claims as false.

“The heavy rains, snow, and cooler temperatures in Iran right now are real — multiple reports confirm unusual late-April snowfall and flooding after years of drought. But the claim that this is due to ‘weather engineering’ stopping after Iran destroyed U.S. radars is a conspiracy theory,” Grok said.

It added that the systems in question were military missile-defence radars, not weather-control technology, and there is no evidence to support large-scale radar-based weather manipulation.

Experts note that sudden weather shifts — including intense rainfall after prolonged drought — can occur naturally due to changing climate patterns, without any human intervention.