Radiation monitoring has been strengthened in Dagestan following reports of a strike on an Iranian nuclear power plant.

Due to the situation in Iran and reports of a shell hitting the nuclear power plant, radiation levels in Dagestan are being measured three times a day. Rospotrebnadzor, however, is not making these measurements public.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on June 14, 2025, Russia's Chief State Sanitary Doctor Anna Popova instructed Rospotrebnadzor to conduct round-the-clock monitoring of the radiation situation in southern Dagestan in connection with reports of a radiation leak in Iran. The day before, on June 13, Israel struck Iranian nuclear and military facilities located throughout the country, leading to reports of an accident at the uranium enrichment center in Natanz, Iran.

Rospotrebnadzor head Anna Popova announced that enhanced daily monitoring of radiation levels in Dagestan is being conducted in connection with the situation in Iran.

“Radiation safety is becoming a very high-profile topic today (...) New challenges include Iran, and now we are constantly monitoring Dagestan. We began in June 2025, when the first data emerged indicating a high risk of an aviation incident there, and, of course, we continue this now,” TASS quotes Popova as saying.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, specialists are measuring radiation levels three times a day. Popova did not indicate that radiation monitoring in Dagestan ceased after June, but the agency has not published any reports on its results since June 30.

Neither Popova nor the Rospotrebnadzor press service reported what radiation levels are currently being recorded in Dagestan, following the shelling of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.

The fact that a shell had struck the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was announced on March 18. This information was confirmed by the IAEA, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Rosatom, which is involved in the construction of the plant's new power units. Tehran claimed that "no part of the plant was damaged," but Rosatom announced on March 19 that it was evacuating most of its employees from Iran. According to the corporation, the strike occurred near the first unit of the nuclear power plant, damaging a facility not related to the nuclear cycle.

The nuclear power plant is located in southern Iran, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, and the distance between the southernmost point of Dagestan and the Iranian border is 165 kilometers.

Caucasian Knot has compiled materials on the impact of military operations in Iran on the Caucasus on the thematic page "Iran: War is Near." Caucasian Knot also published a chronicle of the war in Iran.