Israel won’t hit Iran’s South Pars gas facility again: Trump

20 MARCH 2026

Distancing himself from an Israeli strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field, U.S. President Donald Trump said Tel Aviv would not target the “extremely important and valuable” site again and warned Tehran against attacking Qatar’s energy facilities.
South Pars in Iran’s southern Bushehr province, one of the largest known gas fields in the world.
South Pars is part of an offshore gas reservoir in the Persian Gulf shared by Qatar and Iran. The Qatari side calls it the North Field.
Trump’s remarks came after Iran launched missile attacks at energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Israel, following Israeli air strikes that caused fire at South Pars.
Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, which handles roughly 20% of global LNG exports, was also attacked.
“Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. 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,” Mr. Trump wrote in a social media post.
American media quoted Israeli officials as saying that the U.S. was informed in advance about the South Pars strike.
Oil prices surged, with the benchmark Brent crude topping $115.