{"id":41075,"date":"2026-04-04T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41075"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:25:36","slug":"russia-evacuates-198-workers-from-iran-nuclear-plant-amid-airstrike-channels-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41075","title":{"rendered":"Russia Evacuates 198 Workers From Iran Nuclear Plant Amid Airstrike \u2022 Channels Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia started a planned evacuation of 198 workers from Iran\u2019s Bushehr atomic plant shortly after a US-Israeli projectile hit near the facility, Russian state media said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>This was a third evacuation from the facility in southern Iran on the Gulf coast, which was built with Moscow\u2019s help, with about 100 Russian staff remaining there by now.The area around Bushehr has been struck four times during this war. The latest attack on Saturday saw one person \u2014 a guard at the facility \u2014 killed, but did not damage the plant itself, according to Iranian state media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs planned, we began the main phase of the evacuation today,\u201d Russia\u2019s nuclear agency Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev was quoted as saying by Russia\u2019s TASS news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout 20 minutes after that ill-fated strike, buses set off from Bushehr station towards the Iranian-Armenian border (with) 198 people, to be precise \u2014 this is the largest evacuation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Likhachev also said that Russia informed the US and Israel about the evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2026\/04\/04\/russian-strike-on-ukraine-market-kills-five-wounds-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian Strike On Ukraine Market Kills Five, Wounds 19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe likelihood of a risk of damage or a potential nuclear incident is, unfortunately, only increasing, as has been confirmed by this morning\u2019s events,\u201d the Rosatom CEO said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency plans to keep only a skeleton staff at Bushehr amid the threat of further strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian foreign ministry slammed the \u201cevil\u201d US-Israeli attack and urged a cessation of hostilities on Iranian nuclear facilities immediately.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2026\/04\/04\/1015825\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia started a planned evacuation of 198 workers from Iran\u2019s Bushehr atomic plant shortly after a US-Israeli projectile hit near the facility, Russian state media said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}