Trump says Israel acted alone on Iran gas field, warns Iran against targeting Qatar
The Hindu
Trump confirms Israel’s solo Iran gas field attack, warning Iran against targeting Qatar or facing U.S. retaliation.
U.S. President Donald Trump said late on Wednesday (March 18, 2026) that Israel carried out the attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field, and the U.S. and Qatar were not involved in it.
Mr. Trump also said Israel would not make any more attacks on Iranian facilities in South Pars unless Iran attacked Qatar, warning that the U.S. would attack those facilities if Iran acted against Doha.
“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,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Israel has not publicly claimed responsibility for the South Pars attack. According to the Wall Street Journal and Axios, Mr. Trump knew of Israel’s plan to attack the Iranian part of the world’s largest natural gas deposit in advance and supported it. Iran shares the South Pars field with Qatar, a close U.S. ally.
Iran had said earlier that Israel struck its facilities in South Pars on Wednesday (March 18) in a major escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that sent oil prices shooting higher.
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