What About Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Reactor?

On Saturday night, as we’ve detailed, President Donald Trump ordered military strikes that, he says, “obliterated” Iran’s key nuclear enrichment sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. When the news broke, I had half-written a post about whether the past week’s “should he or shouldn’t he?” debate was missing something. Specifically, What is the state of play regarding Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant?

My question stems from a news story that flew under the radar during the past week as our debate centered on Fordow, the deep underground enrichment facility buried in the mountains outside Qom. On Thursday, several media outlets reported that Russian dictator and war criminal Vladimir Putin, a key ally of the jihadist regime in Tehran, said he had reached an agreement with the Israeli government that guarantees the safety of hundreds of Russian nuclear experts who currently work at the Bushehr plant. There are about 200 Russians there now. With the claimed agreement in hand, Putin said, “their total number may reach 600.”