U.S.-Israeli strikes hit an area near Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on Saturday (April 4, 2026), prompting its Foreign Minister to warn that the effects of any fallout would be felt most keenly by the country's Gulf neighbours.
The strike near the Bushehr nuclear plant killed a guard and led Russia, which partly constructed the facility and helps operate it, to announce it was evacuating 198 workers.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that continued attacks on the plant on Iran's southern coast could eventually lead to radioactive fallout that would "end life in GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) capitals, not Tehran".
Bushehr is considerably closer to Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar than it is to the Iranian capital.
