I’m sure that Iran will very politely not retaliate because Trump asked
donkeykong64123 on
Can we stop posting articles from routers that are ALWAYS behind paywalls
Living_Impress_7769 on
When the dog tells the owner not to bite.
No-Space937 on
Doubt the US didn’t know about this.
Seems likely they are using the Israeli strike to play this up as a one off, in an attempt to reduce retaliation. Meanwhile the damage is already done and this will lead to major disruptions in Iran’s natural gas supply (non of which is exported) which is going to put their already overstretched electric grid past the breaking point, leading to much more frequent brownouts.
ClankerCore on
Behind paywall:
Item 1 of 2 Smoke and fire rise near the South Pars gas field following an attack, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Bushehr Province, Iran, March 18, 2026, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Social Media/via REUTERS
The escalation heightens the unprecedented disruption of global energy supplies that has raised the political stakes for [Trump](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump/), who joined Israel in attacking Iran nearly four weeks ago.
On Thursday, Iran again targeted Qatar’s gas facilities and its missiles also targeted the Saudi capital.
QatarEnergy “sizeable fires” and extensive damage at several of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities targeted in missile attacks early on Thursday.
Trump said the United States did not have advance knowledge of Israel’s attack, adding that Qatar had not been involved.
“Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran,” Trump posted on X on Wednesday.
“Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility.
“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field 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.”
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal said Trump had approved of Israel’s plan to attack Iran’s natural gas field.
South Pars is the Iranian sector of the world’s largest natural gas deposit, which Iran shares with Qatar, a close U.S. ally and host of the United States’ biggest military base in the Gulf.
Since the start of the conflict, Tehran has targeted not just Israel, but U.S. diplomatic and military facilities across the Gulf and warned its neighbours not to host attacks on Iran.
Those troops could be used restore the safe passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for a fifth of the world’s oil trade.
## ISLAMIC FOREIGN MINISTERS CONDEMN IRAN ATTACKS
The foreign ministers of 12 Muslim-majority countries meeting in Riyadh denounced Iran’s strikes on Gulf neighbours and called for an immediate halt.
Iran’s targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure, such as oil facilities, airports and desalination plants, could not be justified under any circumstances, the ministers said in a statement.
“This pressure from Iran will backfire politically and morally and certainly we reserve the right to take military actions, if deemed necessary,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told a press conference after the diplomats met in Riyadh.
Interceptors were seen fired from near the Riyadh hotel where the conference was held around the time the ministers gathered for the consultative meeting on the Iran war.
More than 3,000 people have been killed in Iran since the U.S.-Israeli attacks began on February 28, the U.S.-based Iran human rights group HRANA estimates.
Authorities in Lebanon say 900 have been killed there and 800,000 forced to flee their homes.
Iranian attacks have killed people in Iraq and across the Gulf states, and at least 13 U.S. military service members have been killed in the war.
Reporting by Andrew Mills in Doha and Timour Azhari in Riyadh; Additional reporting by Reuters bureaus; Writing by Jonathan Allen and Michael Perry; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
man_eat_man on
Will the most evil leader on earth right now (Netanyahu) and the most dumb president ever fall out?
chronoic on
Translation : we are going to attack more gas field, but I need the oil companies to keep gas prices low.
Sufficient-Tutor-922 on
Check that out , thats a solid bow by the most powerful man in the world .
Tell me agian how America has destroyed the Iranian regime.
This is peanuts compared to what the regime can do if they feel like their on their last breath .
The entire region is target rich like this and Iran is holding back still , the amount of damage they can do on the global economy is astronomical and judging by Mr im not scared of nothing , the Americans are scared and know dam well the Regime has got enough stock to send us into a deep global recession.
Ukraine is totally focked btw , Russia oil just got a whole lot more valuable aswell .
Long slow clap for the peace maker ..
ZoneWorldly6619 on
That’s nonsense. If that were the case, the US would have not attacked Iran and told Israel to stop it.
Royal-Hunter3892 on
Iran attacked oil and gas production of KSA and Qatar which must have prompted Trump to give this statement signalling retreat .
Apart from the issue of global energy crisis ,
the source of money that funds the family businesses of Trump , Kushner , Witkoff etc also comes from the same source of these Oil and gas monarchies.
The potential loss of personal wealth must have triggered Trump more than the fear of global energy crisis.
PanneKopp on
America first – got it (no distraction) .
ordanatreddit1234 on
Netanyahu: Oh yeah, do you think your presidential office/seat have more power or our lobby groups and pro-Israel American politicians?
Trump: …..
Netanyahu: That’s right.
East1st on
Tail wags the dog
curryapplepie on
Violently lashed out is such a weird thing to say after 3 weeks of war.
airandseabattle on
Maybe this is him starting to distance himself from Israel, placing blame on them in order to save his ass.
Fragrant_Mortgage549 on
Didn’t initial reports say Trump personally approved it? He just couldn’t handle the heat from GCC afterwards and backtracked
doninside on
the stable genius that predicted everything but always knew nothing.
steve_ample on
Mouth flapping, yet brain not engaged, again.
InsanelyAverageFella on
This war is really turning into a shitshow. Trump got way too much confidence from the Venezuela attack and thought this would be a 3 day operation like his buddy Putin thought about Ukraine.
Accomplished-Ad5280 on
Looks like Qatar pressured Trump into this statement, anyone really belives that this attack on the gas fields wasn’t coordinated between the US and ISR..
Numarx on
After watching Israel restock some weapons and shit they will just turn around and start blasting Iran again. Look at Gaza…
BlueWolf_SK on
So lashing out works. Nice.
kapnkool on
Trump needs to assemble his board of peace to find an end to this war. You know they can do it, it’s in the name! /s.
Exact-Metal-666 on
Trump had his “Hitler in the bunker”-moment already?
doctor_morris on
The only solution is for the US to start patrolling Iranian sky’s to prevent Israeli air attacks…
narayan77 on
Republican party wake up, you are following an evil pedo. The Iranian regime is terrible, but not as evil as the Epstein network which has taken over the White house. Join the free world and give consequences to pedos.
hmmm_ on
Desperately wants to TACO but doesn’t have the cards
Mr_Sagoo on
How you gonna have the world’s most advanced military and still look weak.
HeydoIDKu on
Man, trump really fell in line when Israel with their “we don’t officially have nukes”-ass threatened to use them on Iran if we didn’t join their little preWW3 revelations ushering party didn’t he?
HeydoIDKu on
China most be drooling to take Taiwan anyday now.
brezhnervouz on
Hilarious that he thinks that *he* is the one with the power in his relationship with Netanyahu
blumpkin_breakfast on
Trump turning the US into a paper tiger
grouch1980 on
Target acquired. Israel is who Trump is going to blame his incompetence on.
concerned_seagull on
The US already asked Israel not to attack Irans energy sector after their bombings on oil facilities on the weekend of March 7th.
This is what happens when you get into bed with Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ok_Resolve_1754 on
“You better stop warring with Ukraine, Putin, or I’ll lift sanctions on countries buying your oil.” This means nothing.
Malkav1806 on
Always good to know a army got it out thir system.
That is ICP on a new level
MiniMini662 on
Iran for the win
Cute_Ad_9730 on
He’s only just starting to realise how badly he’s fucked up.
miemcc on
He is such a stupid bastard. Iran attacked Qatar after Israel attacked its oil refining infrastructure.
Israel launched this war and then whined about Iran using cluster bulbs bombs to counter Iron Dome. Don’t whine that your enemy is countering your tech lead.
Having dealt with many of the launchers, don’t whine that they change tactics to mines and drones to close the Strait of Hormuz, or that they attack allied nations. You stupid bastards started this!
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I’m sure that Iran will very politely not retaliate because Trump asked
Can we stop posting articles from routers that are ALWAYS behind paywalls
When the dog tells the owner not to bite.
Doubt the US didn’t know about this.
Seems likely they are using the Israeli strike to play this up as a one off, in an attempt to reduce retaliation. Meanwhile the damage is already done and this will lead to major disruptions in Iran’s natural gas supply (non of which is exported) which is going to put their already overstretched electric grid past the breaking point, leading to much more frequent brownouts.
Behind paywall:
Item 1 of 2 Smoke and fire rise near the South Pars gas field following an attack, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Bushehr Province, Iran, March 18, 2026, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Social Media/via REUTERS
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DOHA/RIYADH, March 19 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said an angry Israel “violently lashed out” and attacked Iran’s major gas field, a significant escalation in the [U.S.-Israeli war](https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-trump-administration-intelligence-officials-testify-after-joe-kent-2026-03-18/), but ruled out further such attacks by Israel unless Iran retaliated.
Wednesday’s attack on the huge South Pars gas field drove oil prices [higher](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-prices-drop-us-crude-inventories-show-an-increase-2026-03-18/) and prompted a threat by Iran to attack oil and gas targets across the Gulf, while it fired missiles at Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The escalation heightens the unprecedented disruption of global energy supplies that has raised the political stakes for [Trump](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump/), who joined Israel in attacking Iran nearly four weeks ago.
Qatar’s state oil giant QatarEnergy reported “extensive damage” after [Iranian missiles](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/qatarenergy-reports-extensive-damage-after-missile-attacks-ras-laffan-industrial-2026-03-18/) hit the Ras Laffan Industrial City that processes about a fifth of global gas supply.
Saudi Arabia said it [intercepted and destroyed](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/riyadh-residents-receive-phone-alerts-first-time-warning-hostile-threat-2026-03-18/) four ballistic missiles launched toward Riyadh on Wednesday and an attempted drone attack on a gas facility in its east.
On Thursday, Iran again targeted Qatar’s gas facilities and its missiles also targeted the Saudi capital.
QatarEnergy “sizeable fires” and extensive damage at several of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities targeted in missile attacks early on Thursday.
Trump said the United States did not have advance knowledge of Israel’s attack, adding that Qatar had not been involved.
“Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran,” Trump posted on X on Wednesday.
“Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility.
“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field 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.”
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal said Trump had approved of Israel’s plan to attack Iran’s natural gas field.
South Pars is the Iranian sector of the world’s largest natural gas deposit, which Iran shares with Qatar, a close U.S. ally and host of the United States’ biggest military base in the Gulf.
Since the start of the conflict, Tehran has targeted not just Israel, but U.S. diplomatic and military facilities across the Gulf and warned its neighbours not to host attacks on Iran.
With de-escalation nowhere in sight, Trump is considering [sending thousands more](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-weighs-military-reinforcements-iran-war-enters-possible-new-phase-2026-03-18/) U.S. troops to the Middle East, according to a U.S. official and three people familiar with the planning.
Those troops could be used restore the safe passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for a fifth of the world’s oil trade.
## ISLAMIC FOREIGN MINISTERS CONDEMN IRAN ATTACKS
The foreign ministers of 12 Muslim-majority countries meeting in Riyadh denounced Iran’s strikes on Gulf neighbours and called for an immediate halt.
Iran’s targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure, such as oil facilities, airports and desalination plants, could not be justified under any circumstances, the ministers said in a statement.
“This pressure from Iran will backfire politically and morally and certainly we reserve the right to take military actions, if deemed necessary,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told a press conference after the diplomats met in Riyadh.
Interceptors were seen fired from near the Riyadh hotel where the conference was held around the time the ministers gathered for the consultative meeting on the Iran war.
The UAE [shut down](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/qatarenergy-reports-extensive-damage-after-missile-attacks-ras-laffan-industrial-2026-03-18/) its Habshan gas facility after it intercepted missiles fired in what its foreign ministry called a “terrorist attack” by Iran.
More than 3,000 people have been killed in Iran since the U.S.-Israeli attacks began on February 28, the U.S.-based Iran human rights group HRANA estimates.
Authorities in Lebanon say 900 have been killed there and 800,000 forced to flee their homes.
Iranian attacks have killed people in Iraq and across the Gulf states, and at least 13 U.S. military service members have been killed in the war.
Reporting by Andrew Mills in Doha and Timour Azhari in Riyadh; Additional reporting by Reuters bureaus; Writing by Jonathan Allen and Michael Perry; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
Will the most evil leader on earth right now (Netanyahu) and the most dumb president ever fall out?
Translation : we are going to attack more gas field, but I need the oil companies to keep gas prices low.
Check that out , thats a solid bow by the most powerful man in the world .
Tell me agian how America has destroyed the Iranian regime.
This is peanuts compared to what the regime can do if they feel like their on their last breath .
The entire region is target rich like this and Iran is holding back still , the amount of damage they can do on the global economy is astronomical and judging by Mr im not scared of nothing , the Americans are scared and know dam well the Regime has got enough stock to send us into a deep global recession.
Ukraine is totally focked btw , Russia oil just got a whole lot more valuable aswell .
Long slow clap for the peace maker ..
That’s nonsense. If that were the case, the US would have not attacked Iran and told Israel to stop it.
Iran attacked oil and gas production of KSA and Qatar which must have prompted Trump to give this statement signalling retreat .
Apart from the issue of global energy crisis ,
the source of money that funds the family businesses of Trump , Kushner , Witkoff etc also comes from the same source of these Oil and gas monarchies.
The potential loss of personal wealth must have triggered Trump more than the fear of global energy crisis.
America first – got it (no distraction) .
Netanyahu: Oh yeah, do you think your presidential office/seat have more power or our lobby groups and pro-Israel American politicians?
Trump: …..
Netanyahu: That’s right.
Tail wags the dog
Violently lashed out is such a weird thing to say after 3 weeks of war.
Maybe this is him starting to distance himself from Israel, placing blame on them in order to save his ass.
Didn’t initial reports say Trump personally approved it? He just couldn’t handle the heat from GCC afterwards and backtracked
the stable genius that predicted everything but always knew nothing.
Mouth flapping, yet brain not engaged, again.
This war is really turning into a shitshow. Trump got way too much confidence from the Venezuela attack and thought this would be a 3 day operation like his buddy Putin thought about Ukraine.
Looks like Qatar pressured Trump into this statement, anyone really belives that this attack on the gas fields wasn’t coordinated between the US and ISR..
After watching Israel restock some weapons and shit they will just turn around and start blasting Iran again. Look at Gaza…
So lashing out works. Nice.
Trump needs to assemble his board of peace to find an end to this war. You know they can do it, it’s in the name! /s.
Trump had his “Hitler in the bunker”-moment already?
The only solution is for the US to start patrolling Iranian sky’s to prevent Israeli air attacks…
Republican party wake up, you are following an evil pedo. The Iranian regime is terrible, but not as evil as the Epstein network which has taken over the White house. Join the free world and give consequences to pedos.
Desperately wants to TACO but doesn’t have the cards
How you gonna have the world’s most advanced military and still look weak.
Man, trump really fell in line when Israel with their “we don’t officially have nukes”-ass threatened to use them on Iran if we didn’t join their little preWW3 revelations ushering party didn’t he?
China most be drooling to take Taiwan anyday now.
Hilarious that he thinks that *he* is the one with the power in his relationship with Netanyahu
Trump turning the US into a paper tiger
Target acquired. Israel is who Trump is going to blame his incompetence on.
The US already asked Israel not to attack Irans energy sector after their bombings on oil facilities on the weekend of March 7th.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/us-urges-israel-to-stop-attacks-on-iran-energy-sites-axios-reports#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20March%2010%20%2D%20The%20United,reported%2C%20citing%20an%20Israeli%20official.
This is what happens when you get into bed with Benjamin Netanyahu.
“You better stop warring with Ukraine, Putin, or I’ll lift sanctions on countries buying your oil.” This means nothing.
Always good to know a army got it out thir system.
That is ICP on a new level
Iran for the win
He’s only just starting to realise how badly he’s fucked up.
He is such a stupid bastard. Iran attacked Qatar after Israel attacked its oil refining infrastructure.
Israel launched this war and then whined about Iran using cluster bulbs bombs to counter Iron Dome. Don’t whine that your enemy is countering your tech lead.
Having dealt with many of the launchers, don’t whine that they change tactics to mines and drones to close the Strait of Hormuz, or that they attack allied nations. You stupid bastards started this!