Trump wrote on Truth Social that Israel “violently lashed out” at the South Pars facility “out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East.” He added that Qatar “was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen.”
Despite this, QatarEnergy on Wednesday and early Thursday reported rocket and missile attacks on Ras Laffan Industrial City and several liquefied natural gas facilities.
The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs also slammed the Iranian regime for strikes on its Habshan gas facility and the Bab field.
The action came in response to an attack on the Iranian side of the South Pars field — which Iran shares with Qatar.
Trump said, meanwhile, “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar – 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.”
“I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so,” he added.
Read more here, from The Hill's Max Rego.
