IN BRIEF: Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant comes under attack

MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. Employees of Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation were not hurt in Tuesday’s strike on Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the corporation's CEO Alexey Likhachev said.

TASS has gathered the key information about the attack.

- A projectile launched by either the US or Israel hit the area near the Bushehr NPP, Iran’s authorities said.

- The Iranian Atomic Energy Organization stated that the strike had taken place at about 3:30 p.m. GMT.

- Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev specified that the strike had hit the area near the office of the facility’s meteorological service, in close proximity to an operating power unit, at 3:11 p.m. GMT on March 17.