.. and if it could, would it be?
Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
The article of NYT starts with a chilling story: .... "In 2018, amid a searing drought and rising temperatures, some senior (Iranian) officials concluded that someone was stealing their water from the clouds.
“Both Israel and another country are working to make Iranian clouds not rain,” Brig. Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, a senior official in the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, said in a 2018 speech". A number of countries have been running cloud-seeding programmes for decades and the thought that secret knowledge is used for political advantage is not new in politics. ...