One resident of Ahvaz tweeted: “We get nothing from the oil and gas fields except smoke, power blackouts, and polluted air.”

4 Day Protests in Ahwaz,”Death to tyranny”, “death to repression”

On February 11 this year a number of power stations failed and water and electricity in the most major cities of the province were cut off. 

This is a result of years of neglected maintenance on the power plant and water stations. The regime also redirected the
river’s Karun and Karkheh turning the province into a dessert.

 The excessive building of dams and the oil ministry’s use of cheap and quick methods of oil extraction have dried up the ponds and lakes in the area including the famous Hoor al-Azim wetland and Shadegan
lagoon.

The blackout mainly hit the oil-producing platforms of the National Iranian South Oil Company. Currently, Iran’s oil production totals 3.9 million barrels per day, 2.9 million barrels of which are produced by National Iranian South Oil Company.

The solution lies in the people’s escalation of protests and uprising to overthrow the regime, there will be no change before there is a regime change in Iran.