🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Power outages reported in Tehran and Karaj after US/Israeli strikes on energy infrastructure.

Iranian state media reports electricity crews are working to restore power.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to central Israel.

🇪🇺✝️🇮🇱⚡️- The European Union has also condemned the prevention of the Palm Sunday Mass at the Holy Sepulchre by Israeli authorities, denouncing "a violation of religious freedom."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- U.S. government officials and Wall Street analysts are starting to consider the prospect that oil prices might surge to an unprecedented $200 per barrel, according to Bloomberg.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to southern Israel.

✝️🇮🇱 - It should be noted that the Palm Sunday Mass has never been prevented by those ruling the Holy Land since 1349, when the Black Death was ravaging the world.

While the public was barred from entry in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the clergy were still permitted to conduct the rites. Neither the Six-Day War nor the Israeli War of Independence saw a formal ban on the Mass, and there is no evidence to suggest it did not take place.

Ottoman and Mamluk rulers never issued such restrictive measures during their centuries of rule over Jerusalem. The last authorities to formally prohibit this Mass for political reasons were the Fatimids, prior to the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 1009.

No political entity has prevented this Mass in over 1,000 years.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Sirens in Bahrain, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Explosions heard in Kuwait.

🇺🇸⚡️- Top Democrat party planners are debating whether to purposely nominate a "straight White Christian man" instead of a diversity pick to win back the White House in 2028. Even Michelle Obama herself is now arguing that the US "is not ready for a women" with most strategists agreeing "it has to be a White guy".

This comes as the GOP continues to prop up token diversity candidates such as Vivek Ramaswamy, Byron Donalds, and Winsome Earle-Sears.

🇺🇳🇮🇷⚡- "Based on independent analysis of satellite imagery and knowledge of the installation, the IAEA has confirmed the heavy water production plant at Khondab, Iran, which Tehran reported had been attacked on 27 March, has sustained severe damaged and is no longer operational. The installation contains no declared nuclear material," - IAEA.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Drone alert in Eilat.

🛢⚡️- BREAKING: Brent crude oil futures rise above $115 per barrel at open.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Multiple plumes of smoke are rising from the Victoria base in Baghdad after Iraqi militias targeted it with rockets.

🇮🇷🇸🇦🇧🇭⚡️- Huge explosions in Bahrain and Khobar, Saudi Arabia, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇮🇷🇦🇪🇶🇦⚡️- Explosions also heard in Dubai and Qatar, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Visual confirmation of smoke rising from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

🇰🇼🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has struck a desalination plant in Kuwait, with one death reported.

It is the first strike on a desalination plant since the start of the war.