Gas Cut to the Education Ministry and Five Other Government Buildings in Tehran for Running Heating on a Public Holiday

Alireza Avani, chief executive of the Tehran Province Gas Company, said gas consumption in the province exceeded 98 million cubic metres on Wednesday, 11 November 2026 (20 Aban 1405). Under a cabinet resolution, office buildings must hold their temperature at 18 degrees Celsius and switch heating off on public holidays.

According to the Oil Ministry, special gas-demand patrols inspected government buildings on Thursday, 12 November (21 Aban), despite the holiday, and found that heating was still running in some of them despite earlier warnings and with no staff present. Inspectors cut the gas supply to the Ministry of Education, its deputy ministry, the Statistical Centre of Iran, Branch 1 of the Social Security Organization, the Tose'e Ta'avon Bank building (Ministry of Cooperatives) and the Research Institute of Culture, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Avani urged citizens to manage their gas use more strictly this year than in previous years.