{"id":328450,"date":"2025-02-07T21:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=328450"},"modified":"2025-02-07T21:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:31:36","slug":"iran-news-regime-scrambles-to-justify-nationwide-shutdown-amid-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/iran-news-regime-scrambles-to-justify-nationwide-shutdown-amid-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News: Regime Scrambles to Justify Nationwide Shutdown Amid Energy Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_328451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328451\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/iran-tehran-power-outages.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/iran-tehran-power-outages.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/iran-tehran-power-outages-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/iran-tehran-power-outages-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/iran-tehran-power-outages-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/iran-tehran-power-outages-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/iran-tehran-power-outages-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-328451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Widespread power outage in Tehran, Iran&#8217;s capital, amid the country&#8217;s ongoing energy crisis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall grip Iran, the regime has resorted to its usual tactics\u2014shutting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saat24.news\/news\/649297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">down government offices<\/a>, schools, and financial markets in 28 provinces rather than addressing its decades-long failure in energy management. This latest shutdown, announced following a so-called \u201ccrisis management\u201d meeting, once again exposes how the regime\u2019s corruption and incompetence have left the country incapable of handling even predictable seasonal changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime claims the closures, set for Saturday, February 8, 2025, are due to \u201cpreserving energy stability\u201d amid plummeting temperatures. However, this is nothing but an attempt to shift the blame for its crumbling infrastructure, failing power grid, and chronic mismanagement. The provinces affected include Tehran, Alborz, Kerman, Semnan, Hamadan, Zanjan, North Khorasan, South Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Markazi, Qom, Bushehr, East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Lorestan, Isfahan, Mazandaran, Gilan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kurdistan, Ilam, Kermanshah, Fars, Qazvin, Golestan, Ardabil, and Khuzestan\u2014virtually the entire country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The closure extends beyond government offices and schools. In a rare move that further exposes the depth of the crisis,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irna.ir\/news\/85743608\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> even the Tehran Stock Exchange<\/a> and all financial markets\u2014including the Energy Exchange, Commodity Exchange, and Over-the-Counter Market\u2014will be shut down. This decision, made under the pretense of maintaining stability, is a desperate effort to contain public frustration and avoid further exposure to the regime\u2019s financial failures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran: Reasons for Power Outages and Air Pollution <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pollution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pollution<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/environnement?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#environnement<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FGZCY51MW5\">https:\/\/t.co\/FGZCY51MW5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1364335432142577667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State-run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irna.ir\/news\/85743446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRNA quoted officials<\/a> attempting to frame the shutdown as a necessary precaution. One of them, Mansour Shisheh-Foroush, head of the Crisis Management Headquarters in Isfahan Province, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isna.ir\/news\/1403111914434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated that<\/a> &#8220;all public institutions must turn off their heating systems and boilers over the weekend&#8221; in an effort to save energy. <a href=\"https:\/\/akharinkhabar.ir\/local\/10395426\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farajollah Elyat<\/a>, Acting Deputy for Coordination of Civil Affairs in Semnan Province, stated that closures aim to &#8216;stabilize energy transmission lines and manage travel,&#8217; a thinly veiled admission of the regime&#8217;s failure to ensure basic energy security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the crisis extends beyond just cold weather. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yjc.ir\/fa\/news\/8909852\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Gilan Province<\/a>, torrential rains have caused severe flooding, with local officials urging residents near Pirazar to evacuate their homes. Rainfall has reached 120 mm in just 24 hours, the highest in the country. Social media videos show entire neighborhoods in Rasht submerged, exposing the regime\u2019s complete neglect of infrastructure maintenance and flood control measures. Yet again, instead of accountability, the regime\u2019s response is simply to shut everything down and pretend this is a temporary issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> News: Widespread Power Outages and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Fuel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Fuel<\/a> Crisis Amplify Winter Woes<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gwdx6T9Utn\">https:\/\/t.co\/Gwdx6T9Utn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1867925006552092927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For years, the regime has dodged responsibility for its catastrophic failures in energy planning. With rolling blackouts, fuel rationing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/gas-shortage-crisis-in-iran-disrupts-key-industries-and-electricity-generation\/\">gas shortages<\/a> now a seasonal norm, the clerical establishment has no solutions\u2014only excuses. Instead of investing in infrastructure, Tehran has funneled billions into funding its terrorist proxies in the region while leaving the Iranian people in the dark, both literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The situation has reached a point where regime officials can no longer deny reality. The entire country is witnessing the consequences of decades of corruption, mismanagement, and misplaced priorities. No amount of rhetoric or orchestrated shutdowns can conceal the truth\u2014the regime\u2019s economic and energy policies have completely collapsed, and the Iranian people are once again paying the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall grip Iran, the regime has resorted to its usual tactics&mdash;shutting down government offices, schools, and financial markets in 28 provinces rather than addressing its [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":328451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[269],"class_list":{"0":"post-328450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-iran-economy"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran News: Regime Scrambles to Justify Nationwide Shutdown Amid Energy Crisis - 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