Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that ongoing attacks on the Bushehr nuclear plant could cause radioactive fallout. He stated that the fallout could pose a threat to GCC capitals, rather than just Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that continued attacks on the plant on Iran's southern coast could eventually lead to radioactive fallout that would "end life in GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) capitals, not Tehran"; Bushehr is considerably closer to Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar than it is to the Iranian capital.