NCRI - The State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police –  fired tear gas into a crowd of local shopkeepers protesting to power outage on July 30.

Eyewitness reports from the scene indicate that some local shopkeepers were gathered outside the governor's office carrying banners protesting to 5 hours of power outage causing their businesses huge damage.

"When SSF agents arrived, they opened fire into the crowd indiscriminately wounding some protesters," a bystander said.

"Close to 30 people were also arrested by the SSF," she added.

A shopkeeper's wife, taking part in the gathering said, "They [police] did not pay any attention to the age of participants and began shooting."

On July 16, the semi-official news agency Fars website devoted an entire section to power outages in different parts of the country, including Bandar Abbas, a port city in the south, Sistan-Baluchestan, a province in the east, Isfahan and Shiraz in south-central Iran and Mazandaran province in the north.
 
The outage is so painful that according to Fars "several lawmakers have warned the government and the energy minister on the frequent blackouts and power outages in the capital and many other cities and called for urgent action due to summer."

The energy ministry has announced that as of June 21, the media will publicize blackout timetables so that people can adjust their daily routines.

"Total electricity production of the nationwide grid is 32,000 megawatts but the consumption is 34,000, so the discrepancy should be removed by less consumption," said Parviz Fattah, the energy minister.

Ahmadinejad's response to Iranian people's daily needs, as in the case of Shahinshahr, is violent and suppressive. He has no regards for what the ordinary citizens go throw everyday to pay for his ambitions for obtaining a nuclear bomb under the pretext of nuclear "energy for electricity."