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U.S. President Donald Trump said precocious connected Wednesday (March 18, 2026) that Israel carried retired the onslaught connected Iran’s South Pars state field, and the U.S. and Qatar were not progressive successful it.
Mr. Trump besides said Israel would not marque immoderate much attacks connected Iranian facilities successful South Pars unless Iran attacked Qatar, informing that the U.S. would onslaught those facilities if Iran acted against Doha.
“The United States knew thing astir this peculiar attack, and the state of Qatar was successful nary way, shape, oregon form, progressive with it, nor did it person immoderate thought that it was going to happen,” Mr. Trump wrote connected Truth Social.
Israel has not publically claimed work for the South Pars attack. According to the Wall Street Journal and Axios, Mr. Trump knew of Israel’s program to onslaught the Iranian portion of the world’s largest earthy gas deposit successful beforehand and supported it. Iran shares the South Pars tract with Qatar, a adjacent U.S. ally.
Iran had said earlier that Israel struck its facilities successful South Pars connected Wednesday (March 18) successful a large escalation successful the U.S.-Israeli war connected Iran that sent lipid prices shooting higher.
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Tehran retaliated by promising attacks connected lipid and state targets passim the Gulf, firing missiles astatine Saudi Arabia and besides hitting Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, an energy-industry hub.
Doha rebuked Israel for a “dangerous and irresponsible” onslaught connected Iran’s South Pars facilities, and condemned Iran for what it called “a flagrant breach” of planetary law, expelling 2 elder Iranian diplomats.
Mr. Trump wrote connected societal media that Iran “unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a information of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility.”
“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this highly important and invaluable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to onslaught a precise innocent, in this case, Qatar - In which lawsuit the United States of America, with oregon without the assistance oregon consent of Israel, volition massively stroke up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field.”
The U.S. and Israel launched the warfare connected Iran connected February 28. The attacks person killed thousands successful Iran, including its ultimate person and information chief.
Tehran has responded with its ain attacks against Israel and Gulf countries that big U.S. subject bases. The warfare has shaken markets and caused unprecedented disruption to lipid supplies fuelling a surge successful prices.
