export facility at Ras Laffan Industrial City<\/a> later sustained \u201csignificant damage\u201d in an Iranian missile strike, while the UAE suspended operations of the Habshan gas facility and the Bab oilfield amid missile attacks.<\/p>\n\u201cNO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field,\u201d Trump said on his TruthSocial platform late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar \u2013 in which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Wednesday, \u2060The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had approved of Israel\u2019s plan to attack South Pars, which is the Iranian sector \u2060of the world\u2019s largest natural gas deposit, and which Iran shares with Qatar.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrump, who knew about the Israeli strike on South Pars in advance, supported it as a message to Tehran over its block of the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d the Journal said, citing US officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president believes Iran got the message and is now against attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s Rosiland Jordan, reporting from Washington, DC, said the strike on the gasfield \u2013 one of Iran\u2019s key economic engines \u2013 raises serious questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis raises some questions about whether the Israelis did tell the US that they were planning to attack South Pars before the attack on Wednesday,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n
The strike on South Pars marked the first time in the current conflict that a site directly linked to fossil fuel production had been targeted, rather than broader oil and gas infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Analysts had suggested such facilities had been spared attack up to now to limit the risk of retaliatory strikes on such facilities across the region.<\/p>\n
The latest escalation has fuelled concerns that the conflict is expanding into the energy sector, with potentially far-reaching economic consequences globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Questions raised over US knowledge of Israeli plans to strike key Iranian gasfield as Gulf region\u2019s energy infrastructure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,1435,85,87,46,47,43,16755,1823,78,79,1032,1156,162198],"class_list":["post-346990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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