US President Donald Trump said early Thursday that he would not allow another Israeli attack on Iran’s South Pars natural gas field, after the IDF struck the key energy site the previous day. Trump’s statement came after Iran attacked targets across the Gulf, including a gas hub in Qatar and oil and gas facilities in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, in response to the strike. The attacks were Iran’s latest targeting of the region amid the war with Israel and the US that began on February 28.
Iran, the US and Gulf states traded threats after the strike. Iran threatened further attacks on Gulf states if its energy sites were hit again. Trump, in turn, warned Iran to cease its attacks on Qatar’s energy infrastructure, and Saudi Arabia said it reserved the right to military action after it was attacked. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that Israel had “violently lashed out” at South Pars “out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East,” while insisting that only “a relatively small section” of the oil field, the world’s largest, had been hit.
The US president claimed that Washington “knew nothing about this particular attack.” But US and Israeli officials briefing reporters earlier Wednesday said that Jerusalem did in fact coordinate the strike with the US, after Washington had fumed over an uncoordinated IDF strike on a Tehran fuel facility earlier in the war. Following the attack, Iran had said it would retaliate by attacking oil and gas infrastructure in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and subsequently targeted those countries. (Ed note: This is war, 'Deal Maker.' The idea is to take out the enemy and win the war.) (Read More)
