🔺 Government admits to a gas supply crisis in Iran; possibility of gas cuts in the capital

◾ The government’s spokesperson for the Islamic Republic has warned that if consumption increases, gas cuts in Tehran are also likely; statements that come at the same time as the official estimate of a shortage of about 430 million cubic meters of gas at the height of winter demand.

◾ Fatemeh Hajarani said that the northern and north-eastern provinces, which are at the end of the network, will be more exposed than other areas to a drop in pressure.

◾ However, the current crisis is not solely the product of the war. Based on statements by officials in the gas industry, in the years before the war, during the peak consumption period, there was already a supply shortfall of between 250 and 300 million cubic meters per day.