While attacks on #electricity could hurt #Iran, they could be catastrophic for its Gulf neighbors, which consume around 5 times as much #power per capita.
Electricity makes their gleaming desert cities habitable, in part by powering the #desalination plants that produce 100% of the #water consumed in #Bahrain & #Qatar. Such plants use seawater to meet more than 80% of #DrinkingWater needs in the #UAE, & 50% of the water supply in #SaudiArabia.
Fatih Birol, #IEA exec dir, said the resulting #EnergyCrisis was worse than the 2 #oil shocks of the 1970s & the #gas shortage connected to #Russia's 2022 invasion of #Ukraine put together.
#Iran's Defence Council escalated its threatened retaliation Monday, prior to Trump's delay, saying Tehran would cut all Gulf routes by laying sea #mines if #Trump followed through….
"In this case, the entire Gulf will practically be in a situation similar to the #StraitOfHormuz for a long time..."