{"id":41928,"date":"2026-03-29T22:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41928\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:39:06","slug":"tehran-targets-gulf-aluminum-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41928\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran targets Gulf aluminum facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran stepped up its attacks on Gulf nations, hitting aluminum plants in Bahrain and the UAE this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/29\/irans-irgc-claim-attacks-on-uae-bahrain-facilities-linked-to-us-war\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">strikes<\/a> add to the pressures facing global commodities markets amid disruptions to both production and shipping.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East accounts for 9% of the world\u2019s production of aluminum, an abundant metal that is essential to the functioning of the global economy given its importance to a wide range of industries, including packaging, aerospace, and transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Aluminum prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/tariffs-low-stocks-propel-aluminium-costs-records-us-consumers-2026-01-08\/\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">had surged<\/a> in the weeks before the war given tight supply, and the price shock from the conflict has pushed the metal to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/commodities\/iran-war-rattles-global-aluminium-supply-chain-2026-03-19\/\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">four-year high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That could make construction projects less financially viable, a US builders group warned: \u201cEven more projects <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2026\/03\/projects-will-not-move-forward-how-iran-is-hitting-aluminum-prices-00847267\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">will not move forward<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/be0798005b5b0b50c8a44ae1bf4f6fd8f9172f86-2132x1616.png\"  alt=\"Aluminum production chart\" width=\"740\" height=\"560\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_imageEmbed_1jdgl_38 _fullContentArea_1jdgl_42\" style=\"max-width:100%;color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tehran stepped up its attacks on Gulf nations, hitting aluminum plants in Bahrain and the UAE this weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-41928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116314869799913448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}