climate

In late April 2026, a message posted on the official X account of the Iranian embassy in Afghanistan—since deleted—triggered a wave of online commentary. It claimed that an Iranian military strike against a secret installation in the United Arab Emirates had significantly altered climatic conditions across the Middle East, resulting in several weeks of intense rainfall as well as a drop of five degrees in temperatures in Iraq and Iran.

Published through an official diplomatic channel before being removed, this message crossed a threshold in the information war.