President Donald Trump has warned that if Iran continues attacking Qatar’s oil facilities, the U.S. will “blow up” the regime’s main gas field.
President Trump warned on Truth Social that if Iran “unwisely decides to attack” Qatar, the U.S. “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.”
The Iranian attack on Qatar’s oil infrastructure comes after Israel struck Iran’s South Pars gas facility, the world’s largest natural gas field. Iran also struck energy facilities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). After decapitating the Iranian leadership, decimating its repressive security apparatus, and dismantling its long-range missiles, Israel has shifted its focus to the country’s military-industrial complex.
Since war began nineteen days ago, Iran has been firing drones and missiles at its Arab neighbours, including long-time ally Qatar. “Qatar said early Thursday that Iranian ballistic missiles caused extensive damage at its Ras Laffan industrial area, which houses a major hub for liquefied-natural gas,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
President Trump said he had no advance knowledge of the Israeli attack on Iran’s main gas field, though he noted Israel’s understandable “anger” over Iran’s conduct of war. There will be no further Israeli strikes on the gas field, he assured.
The news website Axios claimed that despite the president’s assertion, the Israeli strike on the Iranian gas field was coordinated with Washington. “The Israeli officials said the strike was coordinated with and approved by the Trump administration,” the news website reported. “A U.S. Defense official confirmed that.”
Iran appears to have ignored President Trump’s warning, hitting a key oil facility in Saudi Arabia on early Thursday. “Oil giant Saudi Aramco’s SAMREF refinery in the Red Sea port of Yanbu was targeted in an aerial attack on Thursday, an industry source said, adding there was minimal impact,” Reuters reported.
The regime hopes that its attacks on Arab oil infrastructure and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will spark a global outcry, forcing President Trump to abandon the military operation.
“For the first time during Operation Roaring Lion,” the Israeli armed forces have “begun striking targets in northern Iran,” the IDF announced Wednesday night
“A short while ago, the Israeli Air Force, acting on navy and IDF intelligence, began striking targets in northern Iran for the first time during Operation Roaring Lion,” the military revealed Wednesday night.
The Israeli strikes in northern Iran appear to be aimed at dismantling Iran’s remaining air force. “The Israeli Air Force continues to degrade the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Air Force’s military capabilities and expand aerial superiority in western Iran,” the IDF’s statement added. “As part of this effort, overnight (Wednesday), an Israeli Air Force aircraft acting on precise real-time IDF intelligence identified and struck an IRG Air Force ‘MI-17’ helicopter at ‘Sanandaj’ Airport in Hamadan,” the IDF statement added.”
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