Overview

• Authorities declared an unscheduled holiday for public employees in eight provinces to ease electricity grid stress amid temperatures above 40°C
• Residents in Sabzevar have held second-night protests over prolonged power and water outages, with security forces deploying tear gas against demonstrators
• Tehran’s dams have fallen to just 14 percent capacity after five years of drought, prompting warnings of imminent water rationing
• Power disruptions have spread to major cities including Isfahan, Mashhad and southern Tehran, underscoring the vulnerability of the aging energy infrastructure
• Despite domestic shortages, Iran’s crude and condensate exports averaged nearly 1.9 million barrels per day in June under U.S. sanctions