Iranian domestic outlets report recurring power and water outages across Khuzestan, Ilam, Lorestan, East Azerbaijan, Alborz and Tehran provinces, with Tavanir, the national grid operator, and provincial distribution companies running scheduled outages in at least some of them1.
The driver those outlets give is a rise of roughly 200 megawatts week on week in summer peak demand, which is seasonal load rather than bomb damage. Tehran's water utility says the capital has no rationing plan, though districts in Tehran Province have lost supply as a knock-on from the power cuts2. Khuzestan has already sent its civil servants home once under a heatwave above 45C that the province blamed for straining the national grid.
Fuel-card quotas have been raised from 25 to 35 litres a fill across fifteen provinces including Hormozgan, where petrol queues have run long enough for the provincial judiciary chief to press Iran's oil ministry in public3. Hormozgan is the province that contains Bandar Abbas, the port CENTCOM has struck repeatedly, and the same province where Iranian civilians queue for rationed petrol beside the strait that carries a fifth of the world's seaborne oil.
Two cautions belong on all of this. None of it could be anchored to a specific day: Iranian outlets date by the Persian calendar, the conversions available to us disagreed with one another, and the conditions are therefore reported here without a date attached. The casualty numbers circulating in the same press do not reconcile either. Three separate Health Ministry tallies are in wide circulation covering three different reporting windows4, and none of them is published here.
