Iran official denies strike on Arak aluminum smelter

A local government official has disputed reports that the aluminum smelter in Arak, the capital of central Iran's Markazi province, was targeted in U.S.-Israeli strikes, according to Iranian media outlet Mehr News Agency on April 8.

Projectiles fired by U.S. and Israeli forces struck parts of an industrial facility near Arak, but neither the city's aluminum smelter nor its machinery plant was targeted, the report cited the deputy governor for political, security, and social affairs of Markazi province as saying. The incident has so far