Iranian FM condemns US-Israeli strike near Bushehr plant, warns of lethal regional consequences

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday condemned a U.S.-Israeli strike near Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant earlier in the day and warned of its potential lethal consequences for the West Asia region.

Earlier, Tehran confirmed that a projectile hit near Iran's only operating nuclear power plant on Saturday morning, killing one security worker and damaging a building on the site, marking the fourth such attack since the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict began.

In a post on social media platform X, Araghchi said "Israel-U.S. have bombed our Bushehr plant four times now. Radioactive fallout will end life in GCC capitals, not Tehran."

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday that Russia strongly condemns this new strike, which resulted in casualties.

"We are studying the incoming information on this matter. We express our condolences over the death of one of the plant's employees, who, as far as we know, was responsible for physical protection," she said.

Zakharova said that Russia condemns such illegal acts, which fully expose the aggressors' disregard for international norms.

"We expect that the damage inflicted by American and Israeli strikes on the NPT (the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) regime will become the subject of an impartial and rigorous assessment during the Review Conference of the Treaty, which opens on April 27," Zakharova said.

She also urged an immediate halt to attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities, including the Bushehr nuclear power plant, to prevent the situation from sliding into a dangerous precipice.

Iranian FM condemns US-Israeli strike near Bushehr plant, warns of lethal regional consequences

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in a social media post on Sunday that he had exchanged views with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the ongoing regional conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran.

In the phone call, Araghchi noted that the United States and Israel have been attacking Iran's industrial infrastructure, hospitals, schools, residential areas, and nuclear facilities, emphasizing the need for urgent action by relevant international institutions, especially the International Atomic Energy Agency, to condemn these attacks and hold the aggressors accountable.

Araghchi also referred to the U.S. threats to attack Iranian energy facilities, saying this rhetoric is a clear admission of committing war crimes.

Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a press release on Sunday that the two ministers stressed that "reckless and illegal attacks" on Iran's civilian, industrial and energy facilities, including the Bushehr nuclear power plant, must be halted.

They warned that such actions pose a threat to the plant workers' lives and health and could lead to a radioactive disaster affecting the broader region.

The ministers spoke out against any actions that could undermine the remaining chances for promoting political and diplomatic efforts to settle the crisis.

Lavrov expressed the hope that efforts by certain countries to de-escalate the tensions around Iran would succeed, adding that the United States' abandoning the language of ultimatums and returning to negotiations would be instrumental.

Iran's FM discusses ongoing war with Russian counterpart over phone