{"id":503734,"date":"2026-03-04T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503734\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:12:08","slug":"breaking-iraqs-power-grid-has-shut-down-nationwide-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503734\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Iraq\u2019s power grid has shut down nationwide &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   Iraq&#8217;s Electricity Ministry said on Wednesday that a nationwide power outage has affected the country\u2019s entire national grid. <\/p>\n<p>A ministry spokesman said the blackout had struck all provinces and that <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/gilgeous-alexander-returns-with-36-in-thunders-ot-win-over-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">technical<\/a> teams were working to determine the cause,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the power network had &#8220;completely shut down&#8221;, adding that the reason for the outage was not yet known.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/faig-mahmudov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Faig Mahmudov<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s Electricity Ministry said on Wednesday that a nationwide power outage has affected the country\u2019s entire national grid.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,16358,451,14945,3,58000,224557,452,453],"class_list":["post-503734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-electricity","tag-headlines","tag-iraq","tag-news","tag-power-grid","tag-spokesman","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}