Monday, November 15, 2021

Facing An Electricity Cut-Off From Other Countries For Not Paying The Bills, The Taliban Plans To Buy Electricity From Iran

Business Insider: The Taliban plans to buy electricity from Iran after Afghanistan's unpaid bills to other countries left it facing blackouts 

* Afghanistan has struggled with electricity since the Taliban took over in August. 

* In October, reports said was leaving unpaid vast bills to nations for power as its economy faltered. 

* This week officials signed a new deal with Iran that may provide relief. 

Afghanistan's national power company plans to import electricity from Iran in the hope of heading off a looming electricity crisis. 

Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) announced a deal this week to purchase a 100-megawatt supply, according to the Afghan network TOLO News. 

The country's power network is in a precarious state since the Taliban ousted the US-backed government in August. Afghanistan imports the majority of its power, and had mounting debts to neighboring countries.  

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Update: DABS to Import 100 Megawatts of Electricity from Iran (TOLO News)  

WNU Editor: The Iranians are not doing this for free. They will also want to be paid.

3 comments:

Jac said...

Being rebel is more easy than being a government.

RussInSoCal said...

Pay Iran with what... opium? 9 year old girls?

Anonymous said...

Spire Energy Warns Missouri Customers of Possible Outages

Meanwhile back at home Americans can pay until Bidenomics gets them, but liberals are damned determined to FUBAR things so bad a civil war results.