Iraq’s Electricity Crisis
BY: Danieal Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - Seventeen years after the US occupation of Iraq, and despite spending tens of billions of dollars in Baghdad to get out of the electricity crisis, Washington's interests demand that this problem remain unresolved. Every year in the summer, with rising temperatures and rising electricity consumption and the government's quota for municipal electricity, large demonstrations are held throughout the country, especially in the southern provinces. This year, large numbers of Iraqis in different provinces have taken to the streets again to protest the poor state of services, unfair distribution of electricity and poor living conditions, calling…
