{"id":4576,"date":"2008-01-01T09:18:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T09:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-protests\/4576-gas-cuts-spark-protest-in-northern-iranian-cities"},"modified":"2008-01-01T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T09:18:51","slug":"gas-cuts-spark-protest-in-northern-iranian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/gas-cuts-spark-protest-in-northern-iranian-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas cuts spark protest in northern Iranian cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NCRI &#8211; On Monday, residents of Mazandaran, Semnan and Golestan provinces gathered outside government buildings to protest the gas cuts amid the freezing winter temperatures that have crippled their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The State Security Force (SSF) has been dispatched to suppress the protest by angry residents in the north of the country. <\/p>\n<p>The residents gathered outside the state-run gas company to express their anger at the regime for not paying attention to the gas shortage in Shahroud.<\/p>\n<p>    The head of government-run Shahroud&#8217;s gas company said that the gas supplies have been reduced to fifty percent and it may soon be extended to the rest of the city&#8217;s population of more than 130,000, the state-run Fars news agency reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The angry citizens held a demonstration outside the governor&#8217;s office protesting the more than thirty present of their gas-cut in the northern city of Ghaemshar. <\/p>\n<p>The complete halt of gas export by neighboring Turkmenistan since Sunday afternoon have shutdown schools, hospitals, industrial and food services in various cities in Northern provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Despite boasting the world&#8217;s second largest gas reserves after Russia, Iran frequently suffers from winter gas shortages which is the result of&nbsp; the mullahs&#8217; regime corruption.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; On Monday, residents of Mazandaran, Semnan and Golestan provinces gathered outside government buildings to protest the gas cuts amid the freezing winter temperatures that have crippled their lives. 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