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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nU.S.-Israeli strikes hit an area near Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant on Saturday, prompting a warning from Tehran that any radioactive fallout would most severely affect neighboring Gulf states.\n\nThe strike killed a security guard at the site, while Russia — which helped construct and operate parts of the facility — said it was evacuating 198 workers.\n\nAbbas Araghchi said continued attacks risk catastrophic consequences, warning fallout could “end life” in Gulf capitals rather than in Tehran.\n\n## No radiation spike, watchdog says\n\nRafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said no increase in radiation had been detected but expressed “deep concern,” calling it the fourth such strike near nuclear facilities in recent weeks.\n\n“Nuclear power plant sites must never be attacked,” he said.\n\n## Fighting intensifies across region\n\nThe strikes came as clashes escalated across the region, including continued attacks on Tehran, where thick smoke covered parts of the skyline.\n\nThe conflict, now more than a month old, began with U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Ali Khamenei, triggering Iranian retaliation that has spread across the Middle East and disrupted global markets.\n\nIran also announced fresh attacks, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it carried out a drone strike on a commercial vessel in Bahrain allegedly linked to Israel.\n\n## Search for missing US airman\n\nMeanwhile, U.S. and Iranian forces were racing to locate a missing American airman after a fighter jet went down over Iran.\n\nTehran said it shot down an F-15, while U.S. media reported one crew member had been rescued and another remained missing.\n\nIran also claimed it downed an A-10 aircraft in the Gulf, with reports indicating the pilot was recovered.\n\n## Strikes hit infrastructure, shipping\n\nStrikes have increasingly targeted economic and industrial sites, raising fears of wider disruption.\n\nU.S.-Israeli attacks hit a petrochemicals hub, a cement plant, and a trade terminal near the Iran-Iraq border, killing at least one person.\n\nIran has retaliated with strikes on infrastructure in Gulf states and by disrupting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a key global energy route.\n\nShrapnel from intercepted drones injured four people in Bahrain, while debris hit buildings in Dubai, including one housing a U.S. tech firm.\n\n## Lebanon front widens conflict\n\nOn another front, fighting intensified in Lebanon, where Israel said it had struck thousands of targets linked to Hezbollah over the past month.\n\nExplosions were heard in Beirut early Saturday, while strikes damaged infrastructure in the Bekaa region and wounded civilians in the southern city of Tyre.\n\nLebanon’s health ministry said more than 1,300 people have been killed since the conflict began, with tens of thousands displaced as violence continues to spread across the region.",
  "title": "Strike hits near Iranian nuclear plant, as FM warns of risk to Gulf"
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