Russia says
Bushehr plant
narrowly
avoids tragedy
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MOSCOW: The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed deep outrage over a new and highly dangerous strike carried out on March 24 in the immediate vicinity of Unit 1 at Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
This incident occurred despite US President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated assurances that, on March 23, he had ordered a five-day pause in attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure.
“We are extremely outraged by this reckless and irresponsible manifestation of a destructive course,” the ministry stated. It added that the attacks give the impression that the aggressors are deliberately seeking to trigger a large-scale nuclear catastrophe in the region in order to conceal and justify their criminal actions, which have already caused numerous innocent civilian casualties in Iran.
The ministry warned that any strike on the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant would inevitably lead to irreversible humanitarian and environmental consequences across the region. So far, a major tragedy has been avoided only by sheer luck, yet the strikes continue to come ever closer to the operating power unit.
The lives of the plant’s personnel, including Russian specialists working there, remain under constant threat — a situation that is categorically unacceptable to Russia. Moscow stressed that the US and Israel must understand the gravity of the situation as clearly as Russia does.
The Foreign Ministry demanded that those responsible for launching this reckless, irresponsible, and unprovoked attack on Iran come to their senses and immediately put an end to their aggression. This includes halting all strikes on Iran’s nuclear energy infrastructure, which is covered by the IAEA Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement, as well as on facilities located in its immediate vicinity.
Russia also called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations, and their leadership to take a clear, unequivocal position and resolute action to prevent any further attacks of this kind.
