I would be hesitant to draw any wild claims. I've been to plenty of less developed nations and it's very common in countries like this to have power outages, even major ones. I would imagine Iran, too, under the duress of it's strangled economy and international sanctions, has lots of problems with supply. I work with an Iranian and she has told me things like prices, utility supplies, availability of goods, etc., are always changing or in a state of flux.

Perhaps it is related to recent murmurings of Iran, but sometimes it doesn't hurt to apply Occam's Razor to certain speculations.