Hospitals, communication and traffic grids, and the business sector rattled by frequent power cuts triggered by consumption surge attributed to sweltering heat. Government apologizes to Iranians for the outages.
Iranians take to the street following power outages during a heatwave. Officials blame the blackouts on surging demand for power and low rainfall cutting hydroelectric output.
The Zionist regime has carried out these actions to derail talks aimed at reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear, government spokesman Ali Rabiei says.
Fire erupts following a mysterious explosion in a factory in Karaj, west of Tehran. State media attributes indecent to electrical fire or one sparked when "consumer goods" stored in the warehouse caught fire over the extreme heatwave in Iran.
"They are provoking us," says one Western diplomat who follows the International Atomic Energy Agency closely, adding that inspectors should be able to have full access next week.
The UN investigator on human rights in Iran has called for an independent inquiry into allegations of state-ordered executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 and the role played by Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi as Tehran's deputy prosecutor.
Many senior officials in the Islamic Republic are part of the Israeli plot, alleges Ali Younesi.
"Iran will also turn off the IAEA cameras if the United States fails to remove all sanctions," spokesman for parliamentary committee warns.
"Drones can fly, return home, and land wherever they need to," claims IRGC commander-in-chief Hossein Salami.
"Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed," State Department spokesman says, following report Washington may cancel Trump-era sanctions to promote a return to 2015 nuclear deal.
