With the ongoing heatwave and severe shortages of water and electricity across Iran, officials of Iran’s regime have implemented widespread shutdowns or reduced working hours for government offices in various provinces.
As the heatwave continues and water and electricity shortages become more critical in Iran, officials of the Iranian regime have resorted to implementing full-scale closures or reduced working hours for government offices in different provinces across the country.
According to the latest decisions, Tuesday, July 22 and Wednesday, July 23 will see complete shutdowns in several Iranian provinces, while others will implement reduced working hours.
According to the resolutions of provincial crisis committees, on Wednesday, July 23, government offices in Tehran, Yazd, Kerman, Mazandaran, Alborz, Qom, Khuzestan, Hormozgan, Bushehr, and North Khorasan will be completely closed.
In some provinces, including Semnan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Kermanshah, Ilam, Sistan and Baluchestan, and South Khorasan, office hours have been reduced, and government offices will operate only between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 or 12:00 noon.
Additionally, the Director General of Crisis Management for Lorestan Province announced that due to the ongoing heatwave and the necessity of managing energy consumption, all government offices, banks, and educational centers in the province will be closed on Tuesday, July 22.
Isa Kalantari, regime’s former head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization, stated on Monday, July 21, regarding the country’s water crisis: “Today we must be worried about Iran. Worried about the existence of a country whose resources are under tremendous pressure, and this is an undeniable reality.”
Masoud Pezeshkian, president of Iran’s regime, stated during the cabinet meeting on Sunday that, referring to a report by the Ministry of Energy on the “water imbalance,” he said: “The water crisis is more serious than what is being discussed today, and if we don’t take urgent action starting now, we will face conditions in the future for which there will be no remedy.”
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Fatemeh Mohajerani, the government spokesperson, also announced on the same day that due to the extreme heat and the energy crisis, Wednesday would be a public holiday in Tehran province.
Officials of Iran’s regime, under these circumstances, have shifted responsibility onto the people, urging citizens to “conserve” and issuing warnings about the critical state of the country’s dam water reserves.
Iran is on the verge of environmental collapse not because of its climate, but due to structural mismanagement. Policies such as unregulated dam construction, expansion of unsustainable agriculture in arid regions, and disregard for efficient water usage have internally corroded the country’s water infrastructure.
In this regime, decisions regarding water resources have not been based on scientific assessments, but rather on political and security considerations. Many major dam construction and water transfer projects have not been carried out based on expert studies but were implemented under the supervision of military and unaccountable institutions.
The people of Iran face not only water shortages but also complete distrust toward the regime responsible for managing this crisis. The destruction of agriculture, frequent blackouts, forced migration of rural populations, and growing public discontent are all symptoms of a political and managerial condition that is neither natural nor inevitable—it is the direct result of decisions made knowingly.
