Unidentified persons blew up two electricity towers between the cities of Haditha and Al-Qaim in Anbar, western Iraq, on Saturday, according to Al-Arabiya correspondent.
And at dawn on Saturday, explosions targeted two electricity transmission lines near Mosul and Kirkuk in northern Iraq, amid the “Mullah Abdullah line” being out of work and a general power outage in the Debs district of Kirkuk governorate.
The Joint Operations Command announced, on Friday, the start of special procedures to limit the targeting of power towers.
The spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji, said that “the Joint Operations Command opened an operations room with the Ministry of Electricity, with the participation All security forces include the Iraqi army, the Federal Police, the Popular Mobilization Forces, and the Energy Police.”
He added that “the security forces began implementing the plans by engaging drones, air force aircraft and Iraqi army aviation, noting that “The towers and the areas that were targeted were identified and diagnosed.”
He indicated that “the security forces began preparing a series of procedures and precautions that It contributes to neutralizing and defining the areas of terrorist organizations attacking the electric towers.”
The Security Media Cell announced, earlier on Friday, the thwarting of the bombing of a power transmission line in Baiji district in Salah al-Din. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, dismissed the Director General of Electricity in the Central Euphrates and referred others to investigation due to negligence and negligence after frequent power outages. And for the candidates, with the approach of the upcoming elections, with the aim of encouraging citizens to participate widely in them.
) Mustafa Al-Kazemi Al-Kazemi directed the leaders of operations and intelligence services to “address and protect the targeting of energy towers, and to pursue Criminal groups.”
Hundreds of Iraqis protested in the capital, Baghdad, on Friday against the increasing power cuts and lack of water supply, while temperatures exceeded fifty degrees Celsius in some parts of the country. The main electricity network in Iraq from outages that last for hours a day over the course of the year General, but it is exacerbated during the summer months when the temperature usually reaches 50 degrees Celsius and the use of air conditioners increases.
The decline in electricity supplies from Iran this month and a series of attacks by militants on power lines exacerbated the crisis.
Four governorates in southern Iraq were subjected, on Tuesday, to a complete power outage, and the reason was that the power transmission network was subjected to repeated attacks, according to the Ministry of Electricity.
Several governorates witnessed the south of the country, including Maysan and Wasit. , frequent protests at power plants, and five demonstrators and seven security forces were injured during the one in Wasit.
All electricity ministers who held this position after 2003 failed to address this problem with solutions Every summer, something that prompts them to resign, especially with the government placing responsibility on the Minister of Electricity, at every wave of protests.
The same thing was repeated this year, and Minister Majed Hantoush, supported by the Sadrist movement led by Shiite cleric Muqtada, took the initiative. Al-Sadr submitted his resignation a day before Iran stopped its gas exports to Iraq and plunged the country into complete darkness.
