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Rafael Grossi, head of the United Nations atomic guard dog, warned that an Israeli strike on the Iranian Bushehr nuclear power plant could trigger a regional disaster, while the two countries continue to negotiate attacks For the eighth consecutive day.
THE director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told the United Nations Security Council on Friday that a direct blow on Bushehr of Russia, located on the Gulf Coast, could “lead to a very large release of radioactivity“, With” great consequences “beyond the borders of Iran.
“I therefore once again call for maximum restraint,” said Grosse, telling the delegates during an emergency session on the Iran-Israel conflict that armed attacks against nuclear installations should never take place.
In the worst case, a strike on Bushehr, which contains “thousands of kilograms of nuclear materials”, would require evacuation orders to be issued for areas several hundred kilometers from the plant, including population centers in other Gulf countries, he said.
Grossi said that a strike on the two lines that provide electricity to Bushehr could melt its reactor core, with disastrous consequences.
Authorities should take protective measures, administer iodine to populations and potentially restrict food supply, with subsequent radiation monitoring covering distances of several hundred kilometers.
Grossi called for a diplomatic solution and repeated his desire to travel to negotiate an agreement.
“The IAEA can guarantee through a waterproof inspection system that nuclear weapons will not be developed in Iran,” he said.
Grossi made his comments while the Iranian news portal Rouydad24 reported that the air defenses in the city of Bushehr had been activated. No information on the objective of the alleged Israeli attack was initially available.
Israel raising the “spectrum of fear”
Israel began to attack Iran last Friday, saying that Tehran was about to develop nuclear weapons, an accusation deniedSaying that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes.
Also speaking at the meeting, the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, said that the Iran-Israel conflict could light a fire that no one can control and called on all the parties to “give peace a chance”.
Iran’s ambassador, Amir-Saaeid Iravani, underlined the civil report of Israel’s attacks against the country, holding photos of Iranian children killed in the bomb attacks at one point.
Iravani said that Israel’s attacks constituted “raw violations of international law”, urging the UN to take measures, warning that if the non-proliferation regime was going to collapse, the Security Council “would share responsibility with the Israeli regime”.
Israeli envoy Danny Danon then accused Iravani of “playing victim”. “We do not apologize to defend ourselves. We do not apologize for having struck Iran’s nuclear installations. We do not apologize to neutralize the threat,” he said.
Reporting from the UN Headquarters to New York, Gabriel Elizondo d’Al Jazeera said that Danon had “tried to raise the spectrum of fear and try to obtain more support from other nations for Israel’s actions in Iran”.
Danon, he said, said Iran had the capacity for ballistic missile to strike Western Europe and even the East Coast of the United States.
Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya said the Israeli attacks on “Iranian peaceful nuclear nuclear installations” were “required to immerse us in a hitherto invisible nuclear disaster”.
“Israel has ignored the assessments of the specialized international agency, having … on its own, decided to make strikes against a sovereign country without regard to the Charter of the United Nations,” he added.
A senior Iranian official told the Reuters news agency that Iran was ready to discuss the limitations of uranium enrichment, but that any proposal for zero enrichment – unable to enrich uranium – would be rejected, “especially now under the strikes of Israel”.
Chernobyle style nuclear disaster
The Grosi de l’Aiea spoke one day after an Israeli military official has given the assertion of a military spokesman who had struck Bushehr, saying that the comment was “an error”.
Grossi said he could neither confirm nor that Bushehr, the only Nuclear power plant in Iran, was struck.
The Russian nuclear energy chief, Alexei Likhachev, said previously that any attack on the factory, where hundreds of Russian specialists work, could cause a nuclear disaster in Ternobyle style.
Speaking via Videolink, Grosi said that IEA was aware of any damage to the installation of Iranian Uranium in Fordow.
He said that there had been no nuclear benefits of attacks on the nuclear sites of Natanz and Isfahan and the Natanz enrichment site.
Likewise, no radiological consequences were expected in the Khondab heavy water research reactor, under construction in Arak, that Israel has also targeted.
