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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Europe 'stealing Iran's rain'

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Western countries of plotting to "cause
drought" in Iran by using high tech equipment to drain the clouds of raindrops.

Mr Ahmadinejad says that
European countries are using special equipment to force clouds to 'dump' Iran's
water on their own continent Photo:
EPA

By Barney
Henderson 12:16AM BST 21 May 2011

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Moments after the Iranian president made the startling claim at the
inauguration of a dam in a central province, it started to rain.

"Western countries have designed plans to cause drought in certain areas of
the world, including Iran," Mr Ahmadinejad said in the city of Arak in Markazi
province.

"According to reports on climate, whose accuracy has been verified, European
countries are using special equipment to force clouds to dump" their water on
their continent, he said.

By doing so, "they prevent rain clouds from reaching regional countries,
including Iran," Mr Ahmadinejad charged.

Iran
has experienced several droughts in recent years.

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Mr Ahmadinejad also recalled an article by "a Western politician," whom he
did not identify, in which "droughts in some regions spanning from Turkey and
Iran to east of Asia are predicted for the next 30 years."

"The regions (referred to in) the article ... include countries whose culture
and civilisation frighten the West," Mr Ahmadinejad said in support of his
argument.

Iranian leaders claim on a daily basis that Western countries, led by
arch-foe United States, devise "plots" to undermine the Islamic republic and to
impede its economic and scientific development.

They also accuse world powers of colluding against Iran's national unity,
independence, political establishment, culture as well as international
relations.

Mr Ahmadinejad is involved in an unprecedented power
struggle with the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He
recently refused to obey orders handed down by Ayatollah Khamenei less than two
years after the pair formed a powerful political alliance to defeat anti-regime
protests that swept the country.

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