MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. US threats to deliver strikes against the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Iran pose a great danger, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
"It definitely poses an enormous threat to security if this trend continues," he said at a news briefing.
On March 21, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States would destroy a number of Iran’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully reopened to navigation within 48 hours.
In response, Iran’s General Staff warned that its forces would carry out retaliatory strikes on US energy and information infrastructure in the region if Washington targets power plants on the territory of the Islamic Republic.
The United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran on February·28. Major Iranian cities, including Tehran, were struck. The White House justified the attack by citing alleged missile and nuclear threats from Iran.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced a retaliatory operation, targeting sites in Israel. US military bases in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were also hit. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and some other key Iranian leaders were killed in the joint US-Israeli attack.