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'Unprecedented Heat': Iran Closes Offices and Schools as Temperatures Soar

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Ministry of Health spokesperson Pedram Pakain called the number of heat-related admissions that hospitals had seen so far 'alarming.'

in response to the news of Iran's shutdown."Licensing more is murder. It's a betrayal of young people.

"Without thoughtful adaptability measures, some parts of the country may face limited habitability in the future," the scientists warned. Iran has not typically called heat holidays, though the government did change its working hours in June to an earlier shift to save energy, according to. The high heat has taxed an aging electrical grid in need of repairs that are hard to finance in the face of U.S.-imposed sanctions, and two power plants had disconnected from the national grid as of Tuesday.

Some Iranians suggested it was this strain on the grid, and not the heat itself, that had prompted the shutdown.

 

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