In brief
The area surrounding Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant has been attacked multiple times during the current conflict, leading to concerns over nuclear safety. An employee was killed in the latest attack, attributed by Iran to the US and Israel. The International Atomic Energy Agency has expressed deep concern, emphasizing that nuclear sites must not be attacked. Russia has begun evacuating its personnel from the facility as the conflict between Iran and the US-Israeli coalition escalates.
The area around Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant has been attacked for the fourth time during the current war, Iranian officials say, as the US and Israel continue to target energy and other industrial sites.
One of the plant's employees was killed in the attack, Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation said. It blamed the US and Israel for the attack, but neither country has confirmed carrying it out.
Bushehr is Iran's only operational nuclear power plant and was completed with Russia's help.
The International Atomic Energy Agency - the UN's nuclear watchdog - said it had been informed of the strike and had expressed deep concern.
No increase in radiation levels was reported, it wrote on X.
It said nuclear power plant sites and nearby areas must never be attacked and called for maximum military restraint to avoid a nuclear accident.
The Iranian statement on the Bushehr attack said the main parts of the plant did not appear to be damaged and its operation was not affected.
Moscow has evacuated many of its staff from the plant. The head of Russia's state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, said on Saturday that the evacuation of 198 people remaining in the plant had started that morning.
Iran's nuclear programme has long been a point of contention, leading to extensive international sanctions. The US-Israeli war with Iran began on 28 February, two days after a third round of indirect US-Iran nuclear talks in Geneva.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned against precipitating a major accident, which would end life in Gulf Arab states allied to the US.
He wrote on social media: Remember the Western outrage about hostilities near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine? Israel-U.S. have bombed our Bushehr plant four times now.
