Iranian officials on Tuesday ordered government offices and banks across wide swaths of the country to close Wednesday to conserve electricity during a brutal heatwave straining the nation’s already shitty power grid, the AP reports on the day-to-day of living in a conservative theocratic state ruled by a powerful singular dictator whose authority is unquestioned even as his competence in delivering the basics in the 21st century is, well… You read all the words before that, right?
Worth asking how much this is going to cost their economy, shutting down for a day and how many such lost days would equal the cost of modernizing the electrical grid. Such a digression itself loops back to the main point that this grating article is straining to hit its audience over the head with, that the constant failures of such base fucking revanchist small dick-powered governance are universal no matter what costume your leader wears or the type of suffering he forces on women.