Reza Kardan, the deputy director of the Atomic Energy Organization and the head of the National Nuclear Safety System Center in Iran, says that “no radiation contamination or nuclear radiation has been observed outside” the sites and facilities hit by US air strikes, reports Al Jazeera.
“Preliminary plans had been made and measures had been taken to protect the safety and health of the dear people of the country, and despite the criminal actions this morning in attacking nuclear facilities, due to the previously planned measures and the measures taken, no radiation contamination or nuclear radiation has been observed outside these sites and facilities,” Kardan said, according to the IRNA news agency.
“People can continue their normal lives in the areas around these sites without any worries,” he added.
Meanwhile, Mahdi Mohammadi, an adviser to Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said that Iran had been anticipating the US attack on Fordow.
“The site has long been evacuated and has not suffered any irreversible damage in the attack,” Mohammadi wrote in a social media post.
“Two things are certain: First, knowledge cannot be bombed, and second, the gambler will lose this time.”
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