🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran is strong and confident enough in its capabilities to thwart any attempt by malicious external actors to sabotage its foreign policy or dictate its course. We can only hope our U.S. counterparts are equally steadfast," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech yesterday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "Many Iranians no longer believe the JCPOA is sufficient," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech yesterday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran seeks tangible dividends. Nothing Netanyahu’s Allies in the Failed Biden Team say or do will change this reality," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech yesterday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "There is no military option, and certainly no military solution. Any strike will be immediately reciprocated," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech yesterday.

🇻🇦⚡️- Vatican confirms the papal conclave to choose the next Pope will begin on May 7th.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian President Putin has offered Ukraine a 72 hour ceasefire on May 8, May 9 (Victory Day), and May 10.

🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Major power outages across Spain, and also affecting areas of Portugal and France.

🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Scenes from Madrid, Spain, where the blackouts have ensured chaos on the streets due to no working traffic lights.

🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Madrid Metro suspends all services.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russian forces will take decisive action if the Ukrainian side violates the ceasefire during the festive period," - The Kremlin.

🇪🇸⚡- Spain's outages seem massive, much more significant than expected. The national grid lost an incredible 13GW in a matter of just seconds.

🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Air traffic is being impacted in both Spain and Portugal - Flightrader24.

🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Portugal's Lisbon Metro suspends services, joining Spain's Madrid.

🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Netblocks calculates less than 17% of Spain's population is currently connected to their networks.

🇪🇸⚡- Red Electrica, Spain's operator, says they're working with energy companies to restore power.

🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇷⚡- France's grid operator RTE has now issued a statement saying parts of the country has lost power.

🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇷⚡- Spain's government convenes a crisis meeting due to the power outage.

🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇷⚡- Approximately 65% of Spain's without power, and 60% of Portugal.

🇹🇷🇵🇰⚡- Turkey's Center for Combating Disinformation under the Turkish Presidential Office confirms Rerum Novarum's earlier report.

"Turkey denied the information about sending 6 planes with military equipment to Pakistan. It was noted that the plane landed in Pakistan for refuelling," - Turkey's Center for Combating Disinformation under the Turkish Presidential Office.

Threat of storm shadow cruise missile launches for Crimea. Ukrainian Su-24/MiG-29 aircraft flew from Dnipropetrovsk to Mykolaiv Oblast.

🇧🇪🇳🇱⚡- Belgium and the Netherlands reported minor power outages as well.