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More than 2,000 points in Iran’s electricity infrastructure were targeted during recent U.S.-Israeli strikes, a senior Iranian official said Wednesday.
Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, Iran’s deputy energy minister for electricity and energy, said 12 employees in the power sector were killed, adding that the attacks aimed to disrupt critical services.
“Attacking electricity infrastructure is an attack on the people,” he said, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Despite the scale of the damage, Mashhadi said outages were restored in less than an hour in most cases.
He added that around 150,000 people work in Iran’s electricity sector, including 30,000 on duty around the clock to maintain operations.
Separately, Aladdin Rafizadeh said 68 administrative personnel were killed while on duty during the recent conflict, according to the state news agency IRNA.
The statements come after United States President Donald Trump previously warned that if no agreement was reached, infrastructure targets such as power plants and bridges could be struck.
Regional tensions escalated after the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, prompting retaliatory attacks by Tehran on U.S. assets and bases across the Middle East.
A two-week ceasefire was announced on April 8, followed by rare direct talks between Washington and Tehran in Islamabad on April 11–12, which ended without agreement.
The ceasefire has since been extended as diplomatic efforts continue, though tensions remain high.
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