Electricity cuts continue to Diyala, Iraq, on Monday, after an Iranian power line stopped working for "unknown reasons", which affected about half of the population of the province, northeast of the capital, Baghdad.

Al-Hurra's correspondent in Iraq quoted a local source as saying that the continuous interruption since Sunday evening is due to the Iranian line, Al-Mirsad, stopping working without knowing the reasons.

The source indicated that the maintenance teams will reveal, on Monday, whether the reason is due to a failure in the transmission towers or from the source.

According to Al-Hurra's correspondent, targeting the electricity transmission towers (through Khanaqin and Imam Weis) northeast of Diyala, or maintenance work carried out by Tehran often affects the Iranian line.

The power outage crisis coincides with the rise in temperatures, which causes the suffering of citizens to double.

And last April, the United States agreed to extend Iraq's exemption from sanctions on Iran for its energy imports, for a period of four months.

Although Iraq is an oil country, it depends heavily on Iran in the field of energy, as it imports a third of its consumption needs of gas and electricity due to its dilapidated infrastructure that makes it unable to achieve self-sufficiency to secure the needs of its 40 million people.