Trump attempts to distance US from Israeli strikes on key Iranian gasfield

Questions raised over US knowledge of Israeli plans to strike key Iranian gasfield as Gulf region’s energy infrastructure becomes target for attack.United States President Donald Trump has tried to distance the US from Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gasfield, describing his Israeli allies as having “violently lashed out” at the facility and promising that it would not reoccur if Tehran refrains from attacking Qatar.Trump said the US had “nothing to do” with the strike on the offshore gasfield facilities in Iran’s Bushehr province on Wednesday, which was followed by Iran pledging to strike energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Three Palestinian women killed during Iranian missile attack in West Banklist 2 of 4Tehran rescue workers pull survivors from rubblelist 3 of 4Attacks on GCC show ‘IRGC don’t think, they just push a button’list 4 of 4Ben-Gvir visits gallows museum, threatens the death penaltyend of listQatar’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Ras Laffan Industrial City later sustained “significant damage” in an Iranian missile strike, while the UAE suspended operations of the Habshan gas facility and the Bab oilfield amid missile attacks.“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY Israel pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field,” Trump said on his TruthSocial platform late on Wednesday.“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,” he said.“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 said.Earlier on Wednesday, ⁠The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had approved of Israel’s plan to attack South Pars, which is the Iranian sector ⁠of the world’s largest natural gas deposit, and which Iran shares with Qatar.