Are you sure about that? There have been thunderstorms all over the Middle East this week. It was flooding in Oman a few days ago and today it's raining in Iran. There's video of the lightning from various places.
This headline seems editorialized, given that the URL just goes to maps.blitzortung.org, which makes no such claim (and AFAICT the map shows no unusual activity around Iran as of this particular instant either — maybe it did an hour ago, for all I know).
That's kind of amazing. You could use weather app data to remove ~all the lightning and the remainder would be a livestream of missile strikes and bombings. Insane.
https://www.nowcast.de/en/
it's an array of VLF/LF radio antenna.