Araghchi: Strikes on nuclear facilities could lead to severe environmental consequences

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sent letters to the UN Secretary-General, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the UN Security Council regarding US and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities.

The letter was published on the Telegram channel of Iran's Foreign Minister.

Araghchi noted that the US and Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities could lead to severe humanitarian and environmental consequences.

"The attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, designed exclusively for peaceful purposes under IAEA supervision, expose the entire region to a serious threat of radioactive contamination with severe humanitarian and environmental consequences, and therefore must not go unanswered and uninvestigated," the document states.

According to Araghchi, in a period of less than nine months, two wars were imposed on Iran by the US and Israel. "In both cases, Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities were attacked and bombed," he emphasized.

The Iranian Foreign Minister published a list of facilities attacked since the beginning of the escalation:

• On March 1, the nuclear facility in Natanz was attacked twice;

• On March 17, a structure located just 350 meters from the operational nuclear power plant in Bushehr was attacked;

• On March 21, several points at the nuclear facility in Natanz were bombed;

• On March 24, a projectile hit the area adjacent to the Bushehr nuclear power plant;

• On March 27, the Bushehr nuclear power plant was attacked for the third time;

• On March 27, the heavy water production plant in Khondab was attacked;

• On March 27, the Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan uranium processing facility was bombed.