Donald Trump has hit out at Israel for “violently lashing out” after attacking an Iranian gas field – before threatening to do it himself. The President made the assertion on his Truth Social platform, where he said the US “knew nothing” about Israel’s attack on the South Pars Gas Field in Iran.The Israeli strikes triggered the Islamic Republic to target Qatar’s Ras Laffan gas facility on Wednesday, causing significant damage to the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal.Mr Trump fumed: “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.”
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He added that Qatar “was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen”.”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.”Mr Trump declared: “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.”I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so.”The US President’s decision to hit out at the actions of Israeli forces comes after National Counterterrorism Center chief Joe Kent quit over major disagreements with the ongoing war with Iran.Mr Kent, a former special forces soldier and key Maga ally, blamed “Israel and its powerful American lobby” for provoking the war with Iran.More to follow…
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