Trump threatens to ‘massively blow up’ major Iranian gas fieldpublished at 02:44 GMT
Image source, EPA/ ShutterstockUS President Donald Trump has just issued a long Truth Social post about an Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field in Iran on Wednesday night.
In retaliation for that strike, Iran attacked Qatar’s Ras Laffan – an industrial area that contains the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facility.
In his strongly-worded post, Trump says the US “knew nothing” of Israel’s strike, and threatens an escalation if Iran attacks Qatar again.
“Out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East”, Israel “violently lashed out”, Trump writes.
He goes on: “The 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.”
But Iran didn’t know this, Trump writes, and that its retaliatory attacks on Qatar’s Ras Laffan were made “unjustifiably and unfairly”.
Trump writes – in capitals – that Israel will not attack Iran’s South Pars gas field again, “unless Iran unwisely decides to attack” another innocent nation, which in this case was Qatar.
It Iran does strike Qatar again, Trump threatens that the US will “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”.
He adds that he doesn’t want to authorise “this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications” for Iran, “but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so.”
