Overview
- State media said a plane seeded clouds over Lake Urmia on Saturday in the country’s northwest.
- The drought has left about half of provinces without rain for months and triggered closures of factories, government offices and public restrooms.
- Iran’s largest lake has largely dried into a salt plain after prolonged water scarcity.
- President Massud Peseschkian warned that Tehran would have to be evacuated if it does not rain by the end of the year.
- The move uses a technique employed in countries including the United States, China and India, while efforts to set global rules for geoengineering have failed at the United Nations.