TEHRAN, April 2. /TASS/. In response to strikes on its steel mills, Iran attacked a facility belonging to the American corporation United States Steel in Abu Dhabi, a US aluminum plant in Bahrain, and factories operated by Israeli arms manufacturer Rafael, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, an elite unit of the Iranian Armed Forces) press service reported.

"We warned that in the event of another attack on Iranian industry, we would destroy facilities belonging to the Zionist regime and US companies in the region, but the enemy, having lost its ability to reason due to the bitter taste of defeat, ignored the warnings and attacked Iran’s steel industry," the Tasnim agency quoted the statement as saying.

It notes that "in response to these criminal acts, which resulted in the deaths and injuries of a number of workers, the air and naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as part of the 90th wave of Operation True Promise IV, launched missile and drone strikes against the US Steel plant in Abu Dhabi, parts of the US aluminum plant in Bahrain that had not been damaged in previous attacks, as well as Rafael’s weapons production facilities."

Later, the IRGC Navy’s press office specified that the attacks targeted "the remaining infrastructure of Aluminum Bahrain and the industrial city of Al Hidd in Bahrain."

On March 27, the Fars news agency reported that the United States and Israel had carried out airstrikes on two major steel mills in Iran. The targets included the Khuzestan Steel metallurgical complex and the Mobarakeh Steel mill in Isfahan Province.