An aerial view of the Arak power plant on June 19, 2025, in central Iran. (Credit: Maxar Technologies/AFP)
For a few hours there, it seemed the Middle East was staring down the barrel of a total radioactive disaster. News was circulating that Iran's only operational nuclear power plant, located in Bushehr, on the shores of the Arabian-Persian Gulf, had been struck. The consequences would have been catastrophic, spilling radioactive materials directly into the Gulf.The announcement from an Israeli army spokesperson around noon on Thursday implied the country had broken an unspoken taboo. An hour later, an Israeli army official told Reuters the earlier announcement was a "mistake," but that he could neither confirm nor deny whether Israel had indeed struck the power plant.The CEO of a Russian state-run company with 200 employees at Bushehr, which was built with Russia's help and is run on Russian fuel, was quick to raise the...
For a few hours there, it seemed the Middle East was staring down the barrel of a total radioactive disaster. News was circulating that Iran's only operational nuclear power plant, located in Bushehr, on the shores of the Arabian-Persian Gulf, had been struck. The consequences would have been catastrophic, spilling radioactive materials directly into the Gulf.The announcement from an Israeli army spokesperson around noon on Thursday implied the country had broken an unspoken taboo. An hour later, an Israeli army official told Reuters the earlier announcement was a "mistake," but that he could neither confirm nor deny whether Israel had indeed struck the power plant.The CEO of a Russian state-run company with 200 employees at Bushehr, which was built with Russia's help and is run on Russian fuel, was quick to raise the...
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