US President Donald Trump for the first time on Wednesday held Israel responsible for the attack on Iran’s important offshore natural gas field ‘South Pars’ and claimed that America did not know anything about this particular attack.
Israel’s attack on Iran’s vital offshore South Pars natural gas field, the largest attack on Iranian energy production facilities since the war began on February 28, prompted immediate retaliation. Iran fired a wave of ballistic missiles at Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City late Wednesday. Minutes before Trump’s speech, Iranian state television announced Thursday morning that a second wave of missiles had struck Ras Laffan.
In a social media post, Trump said that Iran had “unnecessarily and wrongly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG gas facility” in a tit-for-tat action, and that Qatar was “not involved in the South Pars attack in any way, in any way, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen.”
At the same time, an Israeli source familiar with this attack told the American media on Wednesday that Israel had carried out this attack in coordination with America, which is contrary to the President’s claim.
In such a situation, questions are being raised whether everything is not well between Trump and Netanyahu amid the Iran war?
He wrote on Truth Social, “Infuriated by what has happened in the Middle East, Israel has launched a massive attack on a large site in Iran called the ‘South Pars Gas Field.’ “There was no critical information surrounding the attack, and it needlessly and wrongly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG gas facility.”
He further wrote, “There will be no further attacks by Israel on this vitally important and valuable South Pars field, unless Iran foolishly decides to attack an innocent bystander. In this case, on Qatar, in that case, the United States, with or without Israel’s help or approval, will completely destroy the South Pars gas field; and with a tremendous force and power that Iran has never seen or experienced before. “I don’t want to allow further destruction because it would have a long-term impact on Iran’s future; but if Qatar’s LNG facilities were attacked again, I would not hesitate to do so.”