Iraq’s Baaquba city out of power since 5 days, Iran charged with reason:

  DIALA / IraqiNews.com: Citizens of northeast Iraq’s city of Baaquba, the center of Diala Province, have expressed discontent on Tuesday for the absence of electric power in their city since five days, whilst its Electricity Department’s Director attributed the reason for the existence of a “defect” in the power network that supplies Diala Province by the Iranian side. “The majority of Baaquba city is suffering from an electric power cut since 5 days, including  al-Mustapha and New Baaquba districts at the center of the city,” Mahmoud al-Azzawi, a Baaquba popular leader told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding that “the last three months have witnessed an increase in power cuts that reached 18 hours per day in some of the city’s districts.” On is part, the Academist Ali Hussein said that there is “a clear defect in power service, including a drop in voltage that reaches housing compounds, thing that caused damage to electrical appliances, in addition to non-commitment to the programmed power cuts system.” But Diala Electricity Department’s Director, Engineer Mohammed al-Nueimy, told IraqiNews.com that the reason for power cuts “is the existence of a defect in Iran‘s Kermanshah Project that supplies Diala with electric power,” pointing out that “contacts have continued with the Iranian side to ammend the power line,” hoping that the “electric power would be back within the forthcoming two days.” Noteworthy is that several Iraqi cities, including the capital Baghdad, have expressed resentment from the deterioration of the power network and the decrease of the supply averages, taking part at a time when temperatures have dropped drastically, whilst Iraq’s Electricity Ministry officials have admitted that possibility for improvement in power supplies “won’t take part before 2012.” Baaquba, the center of Diala Province, is 57 kms to the northeast of Baghdad. IT / SKH 683