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Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian 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 a naval blockade.
- The call for conservation follows a U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, where CENTCOM reported preventing 34 vessels from reaching Iranian ports amid stalled negotiations to end hostilities.
- 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 arrives Saturday for indirect talks with Tehran.
- Pezeshkian emphasized national unity by tweeting Iran contains no "hardliners" or "moderates," calling for obedience to the Supreme Leader as both sides remain locked in military standoff.
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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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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian urges the people to avoid conditions that would lead to dislike of their government. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian urged his people to significantly conserve electricity due to potential US and Israeli strikes on infrastructure, which would lead to resource shortages and discontent with the regime. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing Al Jazeera. Read also: Trump orders shooting at ships mining the S…
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