Original photos by Daniella Zalcman and Glg.

Rush Limbaugh will be pleased* to know that he and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have something in common: They’re both so balls-to-the-wall bonkers that they think their enemies can control the weather. Or well, OK, maybe Limbaugh only thinks Obama controls the weather FORECAST — which means that, as unlikely as this seems, he’s still losing the Totally Unmoored From Reality Olympics. Because Ahmadinejad actually thinks that Iran’s enemies are destroying the rain clouds.

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But don’t worry — Ahmadinejad isn’t going to cave to your American devil drought manipulation. “The enemy destroys the clouds that are headed towards our country and this is a war Iran will win,” he’s reported to have said, although he didn’t give more detail on how he plans to defeat the cloud-killers. Witches? Robot superclouds? Combating climate change? Actually, if it’s the last one, let him rave — we don’t really care who fixes it, as long as it gets done. Plus, then he and Limbaugh will be comfortably on opposite sides again.

 

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Not pleased.