Portugal también mantiene las labores para el pronto reestablecimiento del servicio, aunque estiman que la total reconexión podría tardar “hasta días”

España sufrió este lunes un apagón eléctrico que afecta a millones de personas en la gran mayoría de su territorio continental y que tocó a Portugal y partes de Francia, informó el operador español.

“Activados planes de reposición del suministro eléctrico en colaboración con las empresas del sector tras el cero (caída total de tensión, ndlr) ocurrido en el sistema peninsular. Se están analizando las causas y se están dedicando todos los recursos para solventarlo”, informó la empresa Red Eléctrica española en X, que poco después indicó que comenzó a “recuperar tensión por el norte y sur peninsular”.

Tanto en Madrid como en Barcelona, numerosos habitantes salieron a la calle, con el teléfono en la mano, en busca de cobertura. Muchos semáforos no funcionaban, lo que obligó a los autos a circular lentamente. Los metros y trenes se detuvieron y la Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) pidió a los habitantes “que eviten circular en la medida de lo posible”.

A continuación el minuto a minuto con los detalles del apagón en España, Francia y Portugal:

EXCLUSIVE – Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz called on his alma mater, Princeton University, to dismiss a former high-level Iranian regime official because he is allegedly making students feel unsafe amid recent outbreaks of antisemitism at the New Jersey university.

The ex-official for the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who is a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at the university, is under pressure on many fronts from congressional representatives, Princeton students and experts on antisemitism. 

«Mousavian is closely linked to the Iranian regime and to the regime’s campaigns of terrorism and murder. His presence at Princeton makes students feel justifiably afraid for their safety. Princeton’s decision to keep employing him shows they care less about their students, and more about providing a platform for pro-regime and anti-American propaganda. That kind of reckless institutional ideological bias is exactly why the Trump administration is reassessing federal funding for Princeton,» Cruz told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement.

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Fox News Digital previously reported that Mousavian expressed support for the U.S.-designated terrorist movements, Hamas and Hezbollah, and appeared to pay tribute to the global Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani in 2020 when he attended his funeral. 

President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike to eliminate Soleimani in January 2020 for his role in the murders of over 600 American military personnel in the Middle East and his planning of new terrorist attacks.

Mousavian has declined to renounce his support for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran’s fatwa (religious decree) to assassinate the British-American writer Salman Rushdie. 

A Hezbollah flag was on display during a Princeton student protest encampment against Israel last year. The Iran-backed Hezbollah was responsible for a 1983 bombing that murdered 241 U.S. military members in Beirut.

Maximillian Meyer, president of Princeton Tigers for Israel, and an undergraduate at the university, told Fox News Digital, «I commend Sen. Cruz for raising urgent concerns about Princeton’s employment of Mousavian, whose career has been defined by shilling for the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Credible reports linking Mousavian to the oversight of Iranian dissident assassinations in Europe – alongside his endorsement of the fatwa on Salman Rushdie – are deeply alarming.»

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Seyed Hossein Mousavian, , who was then head of the Iranian delegation, speaks to journalists at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Nov. 29, 2004 in Vienna. Mousavian is presently a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton. (Robert Newald/AFP via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital first reported in November 2023 that the House Committee on Education and the Workforce launched an investigation into Mousavian’s role in advancing the interests of the clerical regime in Tehran.

During Mousavian’s tenure as Iran’s ambassador to Germany, he was in charge of the embassy that a German court found «served as the ‘headquarters’ for the planning of the 1992 assassination of four Iranian dissidents at the Greek restaurant Mykonos in Berlin.»

However, the former Iranian ambassador previously told Fox News Digital that «This accusation is a big lie,» and «The 398-page verdict is published, and everyone can have access to it. The Berlin court verdict does not contain any direct or indirect allegations against me. German authorities never forced me to leave the country.… I have been a frequent visitor to Germany.»

Yet, Iranian dissidents and human rights experts uncovered testimony from Abolghasem Mesbahi, a former senior-level Iranian intelligence official, who told the Berlin court during the Mykonos trial, «Mousavian participated in most of the [Iranian regime’s] crimes that took place in Europe.»

Mousavian did not respond to multiple Fox News Digital press queries, WhatsApp messages and telephone calls for this article. 

Sen. Ted Cruz talks with reporters. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Meyer, the Princeton undergraduate student, said, «Anyone who has served in senior roles for the repressive Islamic Republic of Iran poses a clear threat to American national security. His continued employment at Princeton is a damning indictment of the anti-Americanism festering within so-called ‘elite’ institutions.»

Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber, who recently said he would defy Trump’s efforts to stop antisemitism via federal funding cuts to the wealthy university, did not respond to Fox News Digital email press queries and telephone calls about Mousavian.

Fox News Digital recently reported that pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian agitators stormed a talk by former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at Princeton, sparking criticism from Jewish students at Princeton.

In a statement to Fox News Digital over the incident, Eisgruber said he was «appalled» at reports of antisemitic language used during Bennett’s visit. He added, «Such behavior is reprehensible and intolerable. The University is investigating and will pursue disciplinary measures as appropriate, to the extent any members of the Princeton University community are implicated.»

Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton University, during an interview in New York, on Oct 11, 2023. (Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

It is unclear if Eisgruber suspended or expelled students who prevented Bennett from speaking. Mousavian has faced criticism for stoking antisemitism since Hamas invaded Israel and slaughtered over 1,200 people, including more than 40 Americans. Eisgruber has gone silent about Mousavian’s actions.

A Fox News Digital examination of Mousavian’s X account shows a high number of Persian and English posts attacking the Jewish state, including comparing Israel with Nazi Germany. The comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany is classified as modern antisemitism, according to the widely accepted definition formulated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. 

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Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and director of Global Social Action at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, asked Eisgruber in a statement to Fox News Digital: Why does the university continue to protect Mousavian at a time of raging antisemitism and what is he still doing there? 

Cooper further asked, in the context of the reported antisemitic mob attack on Bennett and Mousavian’s alleged ties to the murders carried out by Iran’s regime, why can’t «the President of Princeton connect the dots»?

Anti-Israel protesters at Princeton disrupt a speech by former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Max Meyer/X)

Cooper said on Eisgruber’s watch «It is a shameful chapter that must end the right way.» Cooper accused Eisgruber of «stoic silence or indifference to antisemitism» and «stonewalling» efforts to hold Mousavian accountable for his alleged crimes and antisemitism. Cooper continued that Eisgruber owes it to Jewish students and faculty, Iranian-Americans, and Iranian dissidents to answer basic questions about Mousavian.

Eisgruber has not obstructed any law enforcement efforts to investigate Mousavian’s alleged crimes.

Cooper also called on Princeton and Mousavian to submit his Ph.D. for examination. Fox News Digital has learned that neither Princeton University nor the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, where Mousavian allegedly obtained his Ph.D. in 2002, were willing to produce a copy of his dissertation. 

Mousavian was the head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran’s National Security Council (1997-2005), according to his Princeton webpage.

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An aerial shot of anti-Israel protesters at Princeton. (WTXF)

Gary Hughes, a spokesman for the University of Kent, told Fox News Digital, «Data protection principle also means that neither myself nor any other colleague across the University can disclose personal data about this or any other current or former student.» 

He said the university’s Freedom of Information (FOI) office can answer the request. The FOI office denied a request and later said after Fox News Digital appealed that, «We are currently conducting an internal review in relation to your request.» 

A British-Iranian man sought to obtain Mousavian’s Ph.D. in January, according to email correspondence obtained by Fox News Digital. Kent University’s Open Research team wrote in one email, «I am afraid we have no record of Mr. Seyed Hossein Mousavian’s thesis in the library catalogue.» Fox News Digital searches for Mousavian’s Ph.D. in American, British and German academic databases showed no results. 

The Swedish-Iranian author Iraj Mesdaghi told Fox News Digital that he sought to obtain Mousavian’s Ph.D. in 2013. The University of Kent declined to produce it. Mesdaghi wrote about the great lengths he went to in order to secure access to Mousavian’s alleged Ph.D. on his website, including contact with the FOI office. 

Shirley M. Tilghman, the former president of Princeton University when Mousavian was hired in 2009, declined to answer a press query about whether she vetted Mousavian and his alleged Ph.D. 

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Fox News Digital press queries regarding Cruz’s comment to the Department of Education, the U.S. State Department and Leo Terrell, who heads the Trump administration’s task force on antisemitism, were not immediately answered.

Fox News Digital reporter Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

The White House lawn is lined with posters of 100 of the «worst illegal immigrant criminals» arrested in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term.

«Good Morning from The White House!» White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Monday morning, sharing video of the posters, which say «arrested» at the top and appear to have a mugshot or other photo of the person followed by the label «illegal alien.» 

The bottom of the poster lists a crime the person is accused of committing, including rape, murder, sexual assault of a child, lewd acts in front of a child, and distribution of fentanyl and illegal guns. 

OVER 100 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED IN COLORADO SPRINGS MASSIVE UNDERGROUND NIGHTCLUB RAID

«We will hunt you down. You will face justice. You will be deported — and you will never set foot on American soil again,» the White House wrote in a separate X post. «Oh, and your mugshot may just end up on a yard sign at the White House.» 

Leavitt and Border Czar Tom Homan hosted an early morning press briefing Monday. Homan alleged that former President Joe Biden «unsecured the border on purpose.»

«I started the Border Patrol in 1984. I’ve been at this for over 40 years. I worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. Every president I ever worked for took more security seriously. Because you can’t have national security if you don’t have strong border security,» Homan told reporters. «Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border. They understood national security was important.»

«Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came in office and unsecured the border on purpose. That’s just a fact,» Homan said. 

Posters of «illegal aliens» arrested for various violent crimes lined the White House driveway Monday morning.  (White House/ Karoline Leavitt)

The White House also released a list and photos of all 100 illegal immigrants featured on the yard signs, highlighting several higher-profile cases. 

There’s a poster of Jose Enrique Pol Troncoso, a 31-year-old Dominican national arrested earlier this month by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami. He was convicted of fentanyl possession and carrying a concealed weapon. His criminal history also includes cocaine and heroin possession and stalking in Orange County, Florida, according to the White House. 

Last month, ICE Houston arrested 66-year-old Guatemalan national Norberto Che Xol, whose photo is also featured at the White House Monday. He was convicted of indecent sexual contact with a child in Harris County, Texas. 

NEARLY 800 ILLEGAL ALIENS ARRESTED IN MASSIVE FLORIDA ICE OPERATION: ‘TIDAL WAVE’

The White House is also displaying the image of Virginia Basora Gonzalez – a Dominican woman previously deported for fentanyl trafficking who broke down in tears when she was arrested by federal agents again in Philadelphia last month. Gonzalez had a final order of removal dated March 4, 2020. Her criminal history includes a conviction for attempted possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl in Philadelphia, according to the White House. 

ICE Denver arrested 65-year-old Mexican national Francisco Schraidt-Rodriguez, who was convicted of fentanyl distribution in Baja California. His photo is now on the White House lawn.

As is a photo of 55-year-old Honduran national Hector Rolando Valle, who was convicted of performing lewd acts in front of a minor in Oklahoma and sentenced to five years in prison. ICE Philadelphia arrested Valle on March 13. He had a final order of removal dated May 2, 2022. 

The White House posters showed images of the «illegal alien» and what crime they are accused of. (White House/ Karoline Leavitt)

ICE St. Louis arrested 40-year-old Mexican national Giovanni Rafael Falcon Gomez «pursuant to a federal indictment for coercion and enticement of a minor and transfer of obscene material to a minor,» according to the White House. ICE Detroit arrested 27-year-old Bhutanian national Birkha Sarki, who was convicted of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor in Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to five years in prison and had a final order of removal dated Aug. 6, 2024. Their photos are now on display.

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Just days after Trump’s inauguration, ICE Seattle arrested Honduran national Kevin Adith Torres-Velasquez on Jan. 24 for the possession of approximately 10 kilograms of a mixture of cocaine and fentanyl as well as a firearm. According to the White House, he was previously removed from the U.S. in 2005, again in 2008, and in 2017 was deemed an «inadmissible alien.» Torres-Velasquez now has his photo on the White House lawn. 

Fox News’ Patrick Ward contributed to this report.