Electric power restored in Tehran and Alborz after outage, official says

Iran said power has been restored in Tehran and neighbouring Alborz province following outages linked to recent strikes, with the national electricity grid remaining stable.

Deputy energy minister Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi said the disruptions were “quickly resolved through an electricity grid manoeuvre,” state broadcaster IRIB reported. 

The outages were reported after shrapnel from strikes damaged a high-voltage tower and a substation in Alborz, affecting several transmission facilities.

Mashhadi said electricity had since been restored, though he did not specify the primary targets of the attack.

Iran has said that it has decentralised its electric power distribution in anticipation of being targeted by US-Israeli strikes.