I suppose we have to give Iran some credit for chutzpah. And, yes, my use of the Yiddish term for "nerve, gall" was deliberate, and if anyone in Iran doesn't like it, I'll be happy to tell them just where to head in. But the cabal of medieval barbarians that runs Iran has never been one to fail to astound with their self-righteous demands, even as their nation is literally falling apart around them.
In their latest rounds of attempted extortion, they point out the recent calamitous droughts that the country is suffering, and they've clearly learned something from the climate scolds of the developed world, because they are blaming all their woes on climate change, and at the recent United Nations COP30 climate summit, they demanded cash to do something about it.
As though any sane person believes that any such cash would actually go towards reducing Iran's CO2 emissions instead of into the pockets of Hamas or Hezbollah. Watts Up With That's Eric Worrall broke the news in a recent op-ed at that site.
Iran is currently facing ecological catastrophe caused by drought and misallocation of public resources. But apparently climate cash will fix the problem.
COP30: Iran says climate action impossible without financing
November 21, 2025 – 15:18
TEHRAN – Sediqeh Torabi, an official with the Department of Environment (DOE), has emphasized the need for sufficient and predictable financing for implementing climate actions by developing countries.
Referring to the intensifying impacts of climate change in one of the world’s driest and most sensitive regions, Torabi said that frequent droughts, water scarcity, extreme heat, forest fires, as well as sand and dust storms have adversely affected Iran.
Wow. Just... wow. The nerve of these people. Now, Iran actually is in the throes of a serious environmental collapse, with severe droughts giving rise to dust and sandstorms; RedState's own streiff recently documented those problems and how they may very well result in the actual evacuation of the country's capital, Tehran.
An article on the topic in the Tehran Times included this gem:
She (Sediqeh Torabi, an official with Iran's Department of Environment (DOE) made the remarks on Tuesday, November 18, during a plenary session at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP30, being held in Belém, Brazil.
The official noted that Iran cannot support raised ambition in emissions reductions or new targets unless financing, technology transfer, and capacity-building for developing countries are fully and reliably provided. She said that ambition must be matched by the means of implementation.
In simple English: "Give us money. Oh, and technology. Just give us more."
There was a lot of dumb stuff to come out of COP30, but this demand, this insistence on still more cash from the West in the name of "climate change," for Iran, of all nations, has to be one of the dumbest.
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Here's the real deal: Iran's environmental problems aren't caused by climate change. They are caused by decades of mismanagement and incompetence.
The reasons have everything to do with the skewed priorities of Iran’s ruling clerical regime. True to their revolutionary pedigree, Iran’s ayatollahs have consistently preferred guns over butter. They have poured billions of dollars into the country’s nuclear program, its burgeoning arsenal of ballistic missiles and its extensive network of terrorist proxies.
What they have not done is make a meaningful, sustained nationwide effort to reverse the country’s worsening water situation.
The primitives that run Iran are adamant that this is everyone's fault but their own. One particular goblin, one Mohsen Araki, a member of Iran's laughably-named "Assembly of Experts," is even blaming the Iranian people for having insufficient religious zeal. "Drought, water crisis, and reduced rainfall are signs of God's warning to awaken us from negligence and inattentiveness toward him."
Wait, I thought it was climate change? Which is it? Climate change? Insufficient religious zeal amongst the Iranian people? Both?
While Iran's petulant demands for climate cash from the West are breathtaking in their (yes, I'm going to use the Yiddish term again, and Iran can get lost) chutzpah, under no circumstances should Iran get a single red cent from anyone in the name of climate change, or anything else. Let them dip into those pallets of cash that Barack Obama sent them, if that cash hasn't already all been sent to Hamas and Hezbollah.
Does anyone really think any Western climate change funds would actually be used to reduce Iran's carbon footprint, which may be about 2/3 that of Leonardo DiCaprio's private jet travel? No, this money would be diverted to do what Iran does best: Fund Islamic terrorists.
This isn't the time to shovel more wasted cash to Iran. This is the time to let Iran's rulers eat sand. The mullahs have earned this, and an environmental collapse, horrible as this will be for the Iranian people, may be just the impetus they need to finally rise and throw those medieval barbarians out.
