The regime claims the closures, set for Saturday, February 8, 2025, are due to “preserving energy stability” amid plummeting temperatures. However, this is nothing but an attempt to shift the blame for its crumbling infrastructure, failing power grid, and chronic mismanagement. The provinces affected include Tehran, Alborz, Kerman, Semnan, Hamadan, Zanjan, North Khorasan, South Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Markazi, Qom, Bushehr, East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Lorestan, Isfahan, Mazandaran, Gilan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kurdistan, Ilam, Kermanshah, Fars, Qazvin, Golestan, Ardabil, and Khuzestan—virtually the entire country.