Iran's Military Claims Attacks On UAE, Bahrain Aluminum Facilities
The Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) has claimed responsibility for attacks on aluminum facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Saturday.
The Iran military said the sites targeted on Saturday were linked to the United States military. Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) said in a statement that two employees were injured in the attack on its facility.
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UAE’s Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) said one of its sites in Abu Dhabi suffered significant damage, and six people were injured.
Iran targeted the industrial facilities linked to the US in response to the US-Israeli attack on Iranian industrial infrastructure launched from military bases hosting US forces in the Gulf states.
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Bahrain and other Gulf countries have regularly been targeted by Iranian missile and drone strikes, since the US and Israel began attacking Iran last month. The Kuwaiti National Guard says it shot down four drones after air raid sirens sounded in the Gulf nation for a second time within hours. He said that if Iran continues at this pace by matching attack for attack, that is very concerning.
