Rosatom says situation at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant keeps deteriorating

MOSCOW, March 28 – The situation at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear ‌power plant continues to deteriorate and attacks pose a direct threat to nuclear safety, the head of Russia’s state ​nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Saturday after ​another strike near the facility. The International Atomic Energy ⁠Agency said on Friday that Iran had informed ​it of another strike in the vicinity of Bushehr, ​the third such incident in 10 days, with no damage to the operating reactor and no release of radiation reported. The ​Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday called for “unequivocal and ​firm condemnation” of the attack near Bushehr. “We hope that, by ‌receiving ⁠timely and objective information directly from the Iranian authorities about what is happening on the ground, the Director General of the IAEA will be able ​to convey ​a simple ⁠message to the aggressors immediately and unequivocally: ‘It is time for you to stop!’,” ​its spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a ​statement. Rosatom ⁠head Alexei Likhachev also said that 163 more of its staff from Bushehr had returned to Russia ⁠after ​an evacuation, and that two ​more groups would be evacuated in the coming days.