TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have launched cloud seeding operations to induce rainfall as the country faces its worst drought in decades, state media reported. “Today, a cloud seeding flight was conducted in the Urmia Lake basin for the first time in the current water year,” which begins in September, the official IRNA news agency said late Saturday. Urmia, in the northwest, is Iran’s largest lake, but has largely dried out and turned into a vast salt bed due to drought. IRNA added that further operations would be carried out in the provinces of East and West Azerbaijan.

TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have launched cloud seeding operations to induce rainfall as the country faces its worst drought in decades, state media reported. “Today, a cloud…

Iran’s largest lake has largely dried out and people are resorting to praying for rain in some areas

Secondo gli esperti non c’è legame fra il nubifragio e il cloud seeding: troppo distanti. Per il Paese è la più situazione più grave degli ultimi 50 anni. Se n…