South Pars

Israel struck production infrastructure linked to the South Pars natural gas field yesterday, the largest gas reserves in the world, shared between Iran and Qatar. It is the first time Israel has attacked Iranian energy production facilities; until now it had limited itself to fuel depots. The escalation is qualitative: it destroys not storage but productive capacity.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that the United States "knew nothing about this particular attack". Netanyahu said Israel "acted alone." But an Israeli source told CNN the strike was carried out in coordination with the US, and an American source said Washington had been "aware". The claim that the US did not know did not survive 24 hours.

Trump said he spoke with Netanyahu and told him to halt attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure: "I told him, don't do that, and he won't do that". He said Israel acted out of "anger." But the damage is done. South Pars is not just an Iranian gas field: it is the source of a significant share of the natural gas that supplies Asia and Europe through Qatar. To strike South Pars is to strike the global energy supply. The consequences were immediate.