A projectile struck near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant on Saturday, killing a security officer and damaging a nearby building, the latest attack on the country’s only operational nuclear facilityReuters quoted the Tasnim News Agency as saying that the projectiles hit the perimeter of the factory and caused damage to a building near the factory. Major facilities were not affected and power production continued without interruption, the report said.
The incident was the fourth time the Bushehr site has been targeted since the conflict began, with shells reportedly falling in the surrounding area earlier this month.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that Iran had informed it that a projectile had struck near a nuclear power plant. An entity protecting the site was killed by projectile fragments, while a building was damaged by shock waves and debris, the agency said in a post on“No increase in radiation levels has been reported,” the IAEA said.Iranian authorities reiterated that the attack did not affect the plant’s core infrastructure and stressed that operations at the Bushehr plant had not been affected despite repeated incidents nearby.
