US President Donald Trump said an angry Israel "violently lashed out" and attacked Iran's major gas field, a significant escalation in the US-Israeli war, but ruled out further such attacks by Israel unless Iran retaliated further.
Trump said late on Wednesday the attack on Iran's South Pars gas field was carried out by Israel, and the US and Qatar were not involved in it.
Tehran retaliated by promising attacks on oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf, firing missiles at Saudi Arabia and also hitting Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City, an energy-industry hub.
"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 wrote on Truth Social.
Doha rebuked Israel for a "dangerous and irresponsible" attack on Iran's South Pars facilities, and condemned Iran for what it called "a flagrant breach" of international law, expelling two senior Iranian diplomats.
Trump wrote on social media that Iran "unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar's LNG Gas facility".
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