Russia condemns a strike near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant yesterday, which it said was just meters away from its reactor, and calls on the United States and Israel to stop attacking the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities.
Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Kremlin’s Foreign Ministry, makes the comments at a news briefing.
“We strongly condemn the irresponsible and utterly unacceptable missile strike on the inner perimeter of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just a few meters from an operational reactor,” Zakharova says.
Such strikes created unacceptable radiological risks for the Middle East, she says, and were fraught with unpredictable consequences.
Russia built the Bushehr plant, helps Iran run it, and is helping expand it.
Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency yesterday that the attack had caused no damage or injuries.
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