TEHRAN: A projectile from a US-Israeli attack hit near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran on Saturday, killing one person, state media reported.
“Following the US-Zionist criminal attacks, this Saturday morning, around 8:30 am, a projectile hit the area near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the southwest,” said the official IRNA news agency.
It added that one of the building’s guards was killed but noted that there was no damage to the plant’s facilities.
Russia evacuates 198 workers from Iran nuclear plant
Russia started a planned evacuation of 198 workers from Iran’s Bushehr atomic plant shortly after a US-Israeli projectile hit near the facility, Russian state media said on Saturday.
“As planned, we began the main phase of the evacuation today. About 20 minutes after that ill-fated strike, buses set off from Bushehr station toward the Iranian-Armenian border. 198 people, to be precise — this is the largest evacuation,” Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.
UN nuclear body informed
The International Atomic Energy Agency said that it has been informed by Iran about a projectile striking close to the premises of the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
The IAEA said in an X post that one of the site’s physical protection staff members was killed by a projectile fragment and that a building on site was affected by shockwaves and fragments.
“No increase in radiation levels was reported,” the IAEA said.
Petrochemicals hub in southwestern Iran also hit
US-Israeli strikes also targeted a petrochemicals hub in southwestern Iran, wounding five people, Iranian media cited an official as saying.
“Explosions occurred in the Special Petrochemical Zone of Mahshahr,” said Fars news agency, citing the deputy governor for Khuzestan province Valiollah Hayati.
He said the “US-Israeli attack on Mahshahr” hit three companies in the area, while Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying that the “the extent of the damage remains unknown.”
Five people were wounded as a result of the strikes but it was not immediately clear if there were any deaths, he added.
Another US-Israeli strike hit a cement plant in southern Iran, media reported on Saturday, adding that operations were not interrupted.
“The American-Zionist attack against the cement plant of Bandar Khamir did not leave any casualties,” said Tasnim news agency, quoting Ahmad Nafisi, the deputy governor of the southern Hormozgan province.
He added that operations at the plant have “continued as normal.”
– with Reuters
