BREAKING: Iran Launched The Heaviest Barrage In Weeks Against The UAE

Iran launched the heaviest barrage in weeks against the UAE on March 29. Sixteen ballistic missiles. Forty-two drones. UAE air defences engaged all of them.

Eleven people are dead. Two UAE military personnel. Nine expatriates from nine different nationalities. One hundred and seventy-eight injured across 29 nationalities.

And the targets were not military bases. The targets were aluminum smelters.

Alba in Bahrain. EGA Al Taweelah in Abu Dhabi. Qatalum in Qatar. Together these facilities produce 8 to 9 percent of the world’s primary aluminum and supply over 20 percent of EU, US, and Japanese aluminum imports.

The IRGC claimed the strikes were retaliation for US-Israeli hits on Iranian steel and nuclear infrastructure.

Here is the connection nobody has made.

Helium is a byproduct of LNG processing. When Ras Laffan was struck on March 18 to 19, Qatar lost 17 percent of global LNG export capacity AND 33 percent of global helium.

The helium was not the target. It was collateral damage from striking the primary industry.

The semiconductor supply chain lost its critical process gas because the energy infrastructure was hit.See more, details. .