MOSCOW (Dispatches) – The return of Russian specialists to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant is ongoing, with 42 Rosatom employees currently at the facility, the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation said on Saturday.
“The situation in the area of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran is calm,” Alexei Likhachev said.
Likhachev said all Russian proposals regarding Iran’s enriched uranium remain on the table and that Moscow is ready to play a role in resolving issues related to the matter. However, he added that no negotiations with the Iranian side on enriched uranium are currently underway.
The Bushehr plant, located on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast, is the country’s only operational nuclear power station. Rosatom is building two new VVER-1000 units at the site.
The return of Russian specialists follows months of terrorist U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran, which repeatedly targeted areas near the Bushehr plant. On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale military aggression against Iran, striking multiple targets including areas close to the facility.
Russia condemned the strikes as “reckless” and an “unprovoked and premeditated” attack on a sovereign state. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed the “urgent need” to cease “reckless and illegal attacks” on civilian infrastructure including Bushehr, warning that creating risks of a “radioactive disaster for the entire region” was unacceptable.
The IAEA confirmed the plant was struck multiple times. On March 24, a projectile struck within the broader perimeter of the Bushehr site. A projectile hit 
just 75 meters from the facility’s outer fence, with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi warning that “continued military activity near the BNPP – an operating plant with large amounts of nuclear fuel – could cause a severe radiological accident with harmful consequences for people and the environment in Iran and beyond”.
Grossi told the UN Security Council that even targeting the power lines supplying the facility could trigger a meltdown, releasing thousands of kilograms of nuclear material and forcing evacuation orders across several hundred kilometers. 
“Nuclear facilities and surrounding areas must never be attacked,” Grossi stressed, while refusing to condemn the aggression.
Iran’s atomic energy chief Muhammad Eslami condemned the attacks as a “clear manifestation of a war crime” and criticized IAEA inaction, saying mere expressions of “deep concern” without condemnation “emboldens aggression”.