Aya Batraoui

And after Israeli attacks caused extensive damage at two of Iran's largest steel plants, Iran carried out attacks on aluminum factories over the weekend in the United Arab Emirates in Bahrain.

Emirates Global Aluminum says the attack caused significant damage to its main facility in Abu Dhabi.

The company in January had announced a joint venture to build an aluminum smelter plant in Oklahoma to boost U.S.

production for national defense.

The UAE and Qatar host thousands of U.S.

troops, and their energy facilities have been hit in Iranian counterstrikes in the war.

The UAE says a ceasefire with Iran isn't enough.

It's pushing for a deal that addresses Iran's nuclear enrichment, its drones and missiles, and its control of the strait.

The UAE says Emirati Minister Sultan al-Jabr, who heads Abu Dhabi's national oil company Adnok, met this week with Vance and Senator Lindsey Graham, who backs regime change in Iran.

Qatar says its Prime Minister Mohamed El Fani met Vance Friday.

Qatar has taken a more conciliatory tone.

It says Iran's attacks on its sovereignty are unacceptable, but that the war must end through diplomatic means.

Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.

They're not even saying that there are talks.

And what they're saying is that, first of all, that Iran will end this war when it decides to do so on its own conditions.

And it says those conditions include

attacks on Iran ending.

They also want sanctions relief.

They want reparations for what's happened.

And, you know, they've made clear even before this war began that missile production to them was a matter of national defense and sovereignty.