Iran calls for blanket ban on threats, attacks against nuclear facilities

Iran has told a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency that there must be an unconditional prohibition on attacks and threats targeting nuclear facilities, according to the IRNA news agency.

Tehran said that the United States and Israel, both nuclear-armed states, have carried out 17 waves of strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities under what it described as IAEA guarantees.

In its statement, Iran claimed that one of the most serious incidents involved a strike near a site located around 350 meters from the reactor of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, which reportedly resulted in casualties.

The Iranian delegation also said senior US officials had previously issued public threats against Iran’s nuclear power plants.

It added that several thousand kilograms of nuclear material are stored at the Bushehr plant, warning that a direct hit could lead to a “very high release of radioactive substances.”

By Jeyhun Aghazada