Posted on 07/17/2026 4:46:12 PM PDT by dennisw
Sweltering Iranians were warned by their rulers Friday to shut off their air conditioners during peak hours as the regime claimed the country’s power grid came under strain from US attacks.
Tehran’s Ministry of Energy said in a statement that shutoffs were necessary “to help ensure a stable electricity supply in the southern provinces, which are currently facing extreme heat and attacks on electricity supply facilities.”
The statement did not specify whether power plants, transmission lines or other equipment had been attacked.
CENTCOM declined to say whether the US military hit Iranian power plants or other energy targets, but a White House official denied to the BBC that any civilian infrastructure was struck.
“[US forces] carried out strikes exclusively on military targets, including military logistics infrastructure,” the person said.
Temperatures in the Iranian capital hit triple digits on Friday with highs of 102 expected on both Saturday and Sunday.
In the port of Bandar Abbas, focus of the latest American bombing campaign, temperatures were predicted to hover in the high-90s and top out at 105 on Sunday.
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The Iranians that hate the false government should turn everything up full blast
I doubt we hit the powers grid yet.
The apocalyptic death-cult fanatics put all their oil money into their war machine. Not civilian infrastructure
Programmable thermostats
Off = I Ran
Cool = I Run
78 = Manhattan
Not supposed to use AC because many Europeans believe air conditioning contributes to climate change because of energy use and refrigerant emissions.
I blame the Mahdi in the well in Qom.....
“””Sweltering Iranians were warned by their rulers Friday to shut off their air conditioners during peak hours “”””””
They say the same thing to us here in Occupied Territory of Minneapolistan.
Who here would accept calling anyone in government your 'ruler'? I'd rather die.
They need it more than we do.
Too bad they are violent thugs since the war could be over right now and they’d remain in power with no real negative impact on their lives.
We are finally bombing the bridges and electric turbines, among many other things, as I recommended many months ago.
Send them back to the Stone Age.
They earned it.
Just wait.
The UN will award the Islamofacists for “fighting climate change.”
That’s got to be a war crime.
The Iranian regime seems to still be working on that “earning” thing. I’m seeing multiple reports that Iran hit a large Kuwaiti desalinization plant and caused considerable damage.
As stressed as Iran’s water supply already is, that’s insanity.
Before long their grid will be Duracell.
Never a better time to destroy their power grid.......
No need to ask for AC’s to be turned off. Somehow I think the US Military will handle…
AC? They could be in the UK where AC units are being rounded up to save de erf.
You are an idiot.
“Send them back to the Stone Age.”
There are rumors that a massive ground offensive is being considered.
Trump says things will definitely get worse for the psychmullahs next week.
The “stone age” may be coming!
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