US bombed Iran’s biggest aluminium works, risking release of mass toxic vapour

Just a couple of hours before the alleged two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US-Israel axis, the US bombed Iran’s largest aluminium works. A huge explosion that ripped through the Arak aluminium factory in central Iran was captured in footage broadcast on Iranian local media:

The US have again showed complete disregard for the health of Iranian civilians. Fumes or vapour from burning aluminium have some of the most serious health impacts on those forced to breathe it in, from incurable respiratory conditions, to bone degeneration, to Alzheimers-like neurological breakdown:

• Pulmonary fibrosis: inhalation of aluminium vapour or fine dust can lead to the incurable condition pulmonary fibrosis, one of the most appalling and distressing breathing diseases. Lung tissue hardens and scars, making it progressively more impossible to draw breath. Always terminal, life expectancy is usually less than five years.
• Alveolar proteinosis: in this disease, air sacs in the lungs become filled with protein. While symptoms can be treated – through distressing ‘whole lung lavage‘ – it cannot be cured and leads to recurring bacterial and/or fungal infections.
• Metal fume fever: acute exposure can cause flu-like illness with fever, chills, metallic taste in the mouth, headache, breathing difficulties and cough, along with underlying lung damage and blood toxicity.
• Neurological effects: high exposure can affect the central nervous system, decreasing neurological performance in memory, learning, attention, causing tremors and physical degeneration of the brain. Symptoms can be so severe that they are misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease.
• Bone diseases: aluminium accumulation can disrupt bone renewal, leading to osteoporosis and other bone-weakening diseases.

Trump ordered this strike knowing that a deal – at least a claimed one – was close, after threatening to destroy Iranian civilisation for ever. War criminal.

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