{"id":716,"date":"2021-10-11T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/?p=716"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:06:06","slug":"lebanon-in-a-nationwide-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/blog\/world\/716\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon in a nationwide power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite sending fuel consignments donated by the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Hezbollah terrorist group, Lebanon&#8217;s electricity has been completely cut off since the afternoon of Saturday, October 28th.\u00a0\u00a0The two power plants &#8220;Al-Zahrani&#8221; and &#8220;Dir Ammar&#8221; were out of the network when they ran out of fuel. The Lebanese Electricity Company says the country&#8217;s electricity production has dropped below 270 MW. Currently, only 200 megawatts of electricity is generated in various power plants and small dams.<\/p>\n<p>With the rise of the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon, the country, known as the &#8220;Middle East Bride&#8221; in the past two years, is experiencing the worst economic and financial crisis in its history.\u00a0\u00a0The Lebanese currency has depreciated sharply and unemployment is rising rapidly. About three-quarters of the country&#8217;s population now lives in poverty.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite sending fuel consignments donated by the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Hezbollah terrorist group, Lebanon&#8217;s electricity has been completely cut off since the afternoon of Saturday, October 28th.\u00a0\u00a0The two power plants &#8220;Al-Zahrani&#8221; and &#8220;Dir Ammar&#8221; were out of the network when they ran out of fuel. The Lebanese Electricity Company says the country&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":119,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}