The Passive Defense Strategies to Confront the Creation of Blackouts in Iran

The outage of electricity not only has damage to domestic, industrial and agricultural consumption, but also can be considered as a threat to the national security. Nowadays the outage of electricity as an important target of the terrorist groups and hostile governments is being abused to paralyze societies, therefore, it is important and necessary to identify threats and take appropriate strategies in passive defense to have a counteract against them. The purpose of this paper is to explain blackouts around the world and specially Iran, analyze its causes and provide passive defense solutions in order to avoid it and raise the reliability level of the electricity grid.