Iranians suffer from power blackouts during war and heatwave
Iranians suffer from power blackouts during war and heatwave A collapsing grid, battered by recent military strikes and chronic underinvestment, leaves...
Key points
- Iranians suffer from power blackouts during war and heatwave A collapsing grid, battered by recent military strikes and chronic underinvestment, leaves Iranians sweltering in the dark.
- Tehran, Iran – On a subway car in the Iranian capital, Kamran and Moein, two students at Sharif University of Technology, are glued to a mobile phone, watching a viral video of a frustrated ice cream vendor bursting with anger after 180kg (400lb) of his merchandise melted because of power cuts.
- You could study all night, only to wake up and find everything cancelled because of electricity cuts.” For 24-year-old Moein, the crisis is about more than postponed university exams.
- Iran’s largest electricity consumers, the Mobarakeh Steel Company in Isfahan and Khouzestan Steel, essentially stopped drawing power after being hit by joint US-Israeli air strikes during what is known in Iran as the Ramadan War.
What happened
Iranians suffer from power blackouts during war and heatwave A collapsing grid, battered by recent military strikes and chronic underinvestment, leaves Iranians sweltering in the dark. Tehran, Iran – On a subway car in the Iranian capital, Kamran and Moein, two students at Sharif University of Technology, are glued to a mobile phone, watching a viral video of a frustrated ice cream vendor bursting with anger after 180kg (400lb) of his merchandise melted because of power cuts. You could study all night, only to wake up and find everything cancelled because of electricity cuts.” For 24-year-old Moein, the crisis is about more than postponed university exams. Iran’s largest electricity consumers, the Mobarakeh Steel Company in Isfahan and Khouzestan Steel, essentially stopped drawing power after being hit by joint US-Israeli air strikes during what is known in Iran as the Ramadan War. That theoretically should have added 2,000 megawatts back to the national grid,” Arman told Al Jazeera. “Restricting power to industrial units slashes production, drives up costs, delays orders and halts exports,” Selahvarzi told Al Jazeera.