Strike near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant kills 1, says IAEA

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi.

Photo: AFP The ⁠International ⁠Atomic Energy Agency ⁠on Saturday 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 shock waves and fragments. “No increase ‌in ‌radiation levels was ‌reported,” the IAEA said.

Iran’s Tasnim ⁠news agency said earlier on ⁠Saturday the incident did not damage the main parts ‌of ‌the plant and that production was unaffected.

There have now been four attacks near the power plant since the war started on February 28, according to Iranian reports.

Meanwhile, US-Israeli strikes have targeted a petrochemicals hub, 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, in the southwest of the country, while Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying that “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.

Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, dpa

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