Iran warns of ‘serious radiation risk’ after attack on Bushehr power plant

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has written a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, condemning the US-Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites, including the latest targeting of the Bushehr nuclear plant, Al Jazeera reports.

Such attacks “expose the entire region to a serious risk of radioactive contamination with serious human and environmental consequences,” Araghchi has written in the letter, the text of which he shared on Telegram.

“The repeated attacks by the aggressors in the vicinity of the active Bushehr nuclear power plant are of great concern,” he has said. “The proximity of these attacks to an active nuclear facility creates an intolerable situation that poses a serious risk of radiological release.”

A general view of the Bushehr nuclear power plant’s main reactor, 1,200 km south of Tehran, Iran on August 21, 2010. — Reuters/File
A general view of the Bushehr nuclear power plant’s main reactor, 1,200 km south of Tehran, Iran on August 21, 2010. — Reuters/File

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