Iran drought part of 'soft war' by West: VP

[bananas]

Source: AFP

The drought in southern Iran is part of a "soft war" launched against the Islamic republic by the West, the Fars news agency quoted an Iranian vice president as saying on Monday.

"I am suspicious about the drought in the southern part of the country," Hassan Mousavi, who also heads Iran's cultural heritage and tourism organisation, said at a ceremony to introdue the nation's new chief of meteorological department.

"The world arrogance and colonist (term used by Iranian authorities to label the West) are influencing Iran's climate conditions using technology... The drought is an acute issue and soft war is completely evident... This level of drought is not normal."

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Last year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Western countries of devising plans to "cause drought" in Iran, adding that "European countries are using special equipment to force clouds to dump" their water on their continent.

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Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20120716-iran-drought-part-soft-war-west-vp

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[caraher]

1. Oh, we're just retaliating...

Obviously Iran is behind the drought conditions and excessive heat we're experiencing in the Midwest.

Very clever of them to sell us all that oil, knowing we'd kick off climate change!

[Drunken Irishman]

2. LOL

[Bette Noir]

4. Love the pic.

[cstanleytech]

3. Dang, who told them our secret!!!! Now there goes our plans for world weather domination. nt

[Odin2005]

5. I'm sure this was a mistranslation!

[Archae]

6. One of these days...

An Iranian government spokesman will say something logical and truthful.

And no one will notice.

[allan01]

7. re:Iran drought part of 'soft war' by West: VP

hem.

[part man all 86]

8. Wait until the world finds out America has actually been supplying Iran's nuclear program.

[harun]

9. The U.S. drought is worse, just say'n.

[permatex]

10. What's scary is that these lunatics believe this crap.

[may3rd]

11. They believe relief will climb out of a well

and save them taking the form of holy man

fucking morons

[permatex]

12. I suppose they didn't stop to think

that 1/2 of the US in in the same boat as them so I guess, using their logic, we are waging a soft war on ourselves with a weather machine.

[wordpix]

13. just passed by totally brown corn in Delaware, 1/2 the height it usually is in July

I guess the Iranians are seeding our clouds to keep rain from falling in DE

[sakabatou]

14. Oy vesmier

[madokie]

15. I wonder how this dude gets dressed in the morning

does he dress himself or is someone else dressing him

[ileus]

16. "soft war" also being waged on the US midwest.