US President Donald Trump has just issued a long Truth Social post about the attack on the South Pars gas field in Iran, saying the US “knew nothing” of the Israeli attack – and threatening an escalation if Iran retaliates against Qatar again.
“Out of anger”, Israel “violently lashed out” in the attack that hit a “relatively small section of the whole”, Trump writes.
He says Iran “did not know this” and that it’s retaliatory attacks on Qatar’s LNG gas facility at Ras Laffan were made “unjustifiably and unfairly”.
Israel will not attack the Iranian South Pars gas field again, he says, describing it as “extremely important and valuable”.
However, Trump writes that should Iran attack Qatar, the US will “massively blow up” the field, “at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before”.
He adds that he doesn’t want to authorise “this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications” for Iran, “but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so.”
Donald Trump says the US “knew nothing” about Israel’s attack on the South Pars gas field in Iran
The US president is warning Iran against further retaliation after it attacked Qatar’s LNG gas facility at Ras Laffan, causing “extensive damage”, according to the country’s state-owned petroleum company
Ras Laffan was among the sites that Iran warned it would target after its South Pars gas field facilities were hit by Israeli strikes
Iran’s South Pars is part of the world’s largest natural gas field, with both Qatar and Iran operating facilities in the area – Israel is yet to comment
Three women in the occupied West Bank were killed after shrapnel from an intercepted missile reportedly fell on a beauty salon
Retaliatory strikes by Iran and its allied militia groups continue across the Middle East – with blasts and drone interceptions reported in Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib was killed in a strike, the country’s president confirms – read more about him-BBC
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