US EditionIran President Calls on People to Save Energy
Pezeshkian said households should reduce use as ageing infrastructure and sanctions leave Iran’s grid unable to meet demand, officials and experts said.
- On Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian urged citizens to conserve electricity, suggesting households reduce lighting from 10 bulbs to two, citing infrastructure damage from U.S. and Israeli forces and an ongoing naval blockade.
- The call follows a tightening U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, where CENTCOM reported preventing 34 vessels from reaching Iranian ports as the USS George H.W. Bush joined other carriers for Operation Epic Fury.
- While Pezeshkian admitted the U.S. and Israel "destroyed our infrastructure," Iranian judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei dismissed the blockade's effectiveness on Saturday, tweeting the U.S. lacks naval capability to enforce it.
- Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi visited Pakistan on Friday to coordinate regional developments, while a U.S. delegation led by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff is expected in Islamabad on Saturday for indirect talks.
- Amid these tensions, Pezeshkian tweeted that Iran contains no "hardliners" or "moderates," emphasizing national unity and obedience to the Supreme Leader as the administration remains locked in standoff with the U.S.
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Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian called on the population on Saturday to save electricity, warning that, although there is no shortage at this time, the United States and Israel are trying to sow "uncontent among Iranians," he writes...
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian accuses the United States and Israel of targeting the country's infrastructure and imposing a blockade "so that the current satisfaction" of the population "turns into discontent".
In Iran the electricity is scarce. The president of the country now asks the population to limit consumption. Regimes and experts do not agree on what has led to the bottlenecks.
No power cuts have been reported in recent days in Tehran, the capital, which was hit intensively on the first day of the American-Israeli attack on 28 February. A truce has been in effect since 8 April.
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