Russian nuclear energy chief Alexei Likhachev said on Friday that the situation at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, where hundreds of Russian specialists work, was "normal" and under control.

Israel’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities have alarmed none more than Russia, the country that first brought nuclear power to Iran in defiance of Western objections. Decades of conflict with the West have united Iran and Russia,

Israel said it struck Iran's only functioning nuclear power plant along the Gulf coast on Thursday, potentially a major escalation in the war, but an Israeli military official later backtracked by saying "it was a mistake" to have said it was hit.