The Mail & Guardian | 08.04.2026 20:59
Iranian media reported on 8 April that US-Israeli strikes hit the Iran Aluminium Company in Arak, the country’s largest aluminium producer, along with the Amirkabir petrochemical complex in Mahshahr. A strike on a plant of that scale is the ultimate act of terrorism. Aluminium fires generate dense aluminium oxide smoke and release a cocktail of corrosive and toxic gases.
