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.

(Reporting by Anastasia Lyrchikova; Writing by Ksenia Orlova; Editing by Jan ‌Harvey)

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