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BumRushDaShow

(169,533 posts)
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 10:52 AM 8 hrs ago

Rosatom Says Situation at Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Keeps Deteriorating

Source: US News & World Report/Reuters

March 28, 2026, at 9:38 a.m.


MOSCOW, March 28 - The situation ⁠at ⁠Iran's Bushehr nuclear ⁠power plant continues to deteriorate and ​attacks pose a direct threat to nuclear safety, the ‌head of Russia's state ‌nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Saturday ⁠after ⁠another strike near the facility.

The International Atomic Energy Agency ​said on Friday that Iran had informed it of another strike in the vicinity of Bushehr, ​the third such incident in 10 days, with ⁠no damage ⁠to the operating ⁠reactor ​and no release of radiation reported.

The Russian Foreign Ministry ​on Saturday called ⁠for "unequivocal and firm condemnation" of the attack near Bushehr.

"We hope that, by receiving timely and objective information directly from the Iranian authorities ⁠about what is happening on the ground, the Director ⁠General of the IAEA will be able to convey a simple message to the aggressors immediately and unequivocally: ‘It is time for you to stop!'," its spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-03-28/rosatom-says-situation-at-irans-bushehr-nuclear-power-plant-keeps-deteriorating

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Rosatom Says Situation at Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Keeps Deteriorating (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago OP
We're trusting Russian news sources now? Nt Fiendish Thingy 8 hrs ago #1
More trusted than most American? LiberalArkie 8 hrs ago #2
Reuters story BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago #3
After everything the Orcs blue-wave 8 hrs ago #4
was wondering how long it would take for somebody to point to the GLARING hypocrisy stopdiggin 8 hrs ago #5
"It is time for you to stop" area51 7 hrs ago #6
OK, apparently Russians operate Bushehr. ananda 5 hrs ago #7

BumRushDaShow

(169,533 posts)
3. Reuters story
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 11:01 AM
8 hrs ago

with quotes from the Director General of the IAEA (that monitors nuclear reactors globally).


https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/rosatom-says-situation-irans-bushehr-nuclear-power-plant-keeps-deteriorating-2026-03-28/

Apparently Russia is operating that facility in Iran and has evacuated their staff.

(Reuters usually throws up paywalls after about 4 - 5 articles so when I can, I try to find outlets that use their wire services to republish)

blue-wave

(5,064 posts)
4. After everything the Orcs
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 11:03 AM
8 hrs ago

did to the Chernobyl facility and the Zaporizhian nuclear plant, the Russians are now clutching their pearls? The Orcs need to get hell out of Ukraine. Maybe then they'd have more credibility.

On edit: Pootin and his lackeys have threatened nuclear war for years now. And we're supposed to believe the Orcs are the good guys concerned with nuclear catastrophe? Not sure what is really going on at this facility in Iran, but could be Russian disinfo or if real, an inside Russian job.

stopdiggin

(15,432 posts)
5. was wondering how long it would take for somebody to point to the GLARING hypocrisy
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 11:22 AM
8 hrs ago

Could we have a more obvious example of the pot calling ... ?

Ukraine, my dear friends .. ?

area51

(12,688 posts)
6. "It is time for you to stop"
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 11:43 AM
7 hrs ago

Putin could order #PEDOnald to stop at any time, just saying.

ananda

(35,116 posts)
7. OK, apparently Russians operate Bushehr.
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 01:26 PM
5 hrs ago

They say it's been struck twice.

They started evacuating two days ago.

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