US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israel will not strike Iran's South Pars gas field again unless Tehran retaliates while warning that any further attack on Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure would prompt the US to destroy the entire facility.
"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," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
He said Iran had "unjustifiably and unfairly" struck a portion of Qatar's LNG facility in the Ras Laffan Industrial City after failing to understand those facts.
Trump warned that if Qatar's LNG infrastructure were hit again, the US would "massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field" with or without Israeli involvement at a scale Iran had "never seen or witnessed before."
He said he did not want to authorize such destruction given its long-term consequences for Iran's future but would not hesitate if forced to act.
An Israeli airstrike targeted the Iranian side of the South Pars gas field Wednesday, halting production at two major refineries. Qatar reported two separate missile attacks on the Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar's main LNG production hub, on Wednesday and early Thursday.
