The UAE’s nuclear plant was “carefully targeted” last month by attackers who aimed to cause a major incident, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
The drone attack on May 17 hit an electricity facility at the plant, risking potentially shutting it down -- a “serious situation indeed,” Rafael Grossi said.
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“From what we saw this was a very carefully targeted operation,” Grossi told journalists in Abu Dhabi after visiting the Barakah plant.
The United Arab Emirates blamed militants in Iraq for the incident, which followed weeks of attacks by Iranian drones and missiles during the Middle East war.
