CEO of Russia’s Rosatom Alexey Likhachev has said that Rosatom will remain active in Iran despite the Middle East conflict and plans to complete two additional reactors at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.

Rosatom built the first 1-gigawatt reactor at Iran’s only nuclear power plant but partially evacuated staff and paused construction after US and Israel struck targets in Iran on February 28, The Caspian Post reports via foreign media.

About 450 employees remain on site, while 150 recently returned to Russia via Armenia. Likhachov emphasized that finishing the second and third reactors remains a corporate priority, calling the regional conflict “just part of the global mosaic.”

No strikes or work stoppages have occurred at the plant or construction sites. Under a bilateral agreement, Russia and Iran plan to build up to eight nuclear reactors, with four at Bushehr. Last fall, Iran signed a $25 billion deal with Rosatom to build four 5-gigawatt reactors at a new site in southeastern Iran, alongside a memorandum on developing small nuclear power plants.