Breaking News:Israel will not attack Iranian gas field any more: U.S. President Donald Trump– What Just Happened

A day after Israel attacked energy facilities in Iran’s South Pars gas field and Tehran retaliated by hitting energy infrastructure in three Persian Gulf countries, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (March 19, 2026) said the U.S. was not part of the Israeli attack and that Tel Aviv will not target the Iranian gas field any more.

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“Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East [West Asia], 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.

“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,” he added. “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 will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field.”

Iran on Wednesday evening (March 18, 2026) said several phases at the South Pars gas field came under attack and launched missiles at energy facilities in Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Qatar’s state-run energy firm Qatar Energy said on Wednesday that its main Ras Laffan Industrial City came under attack. On Thursday (March 19, 2026), it said several of the company’s LNG facilities were hit by Iranian missiles causing “extensive damage”.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) suspended operations at Abu Dhabi’s Habshan gas facility after authorities said debris of intercepted missiles fell on the site. The Bab oil field in the Emirate and a refinery near the Saudi capital Riyadh were also targeted.

In a statement, the UAE Foreign Ministry said the Iranian attacks “constitute a dangerous escalation and a violation of international law. The UAE reserves its full right to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty and national security, and to safeguard its national interests.” The Foreign Ministry of Qatar declared “the military attache and the security attache at the [Iranian] embassy [in Doha], in addition to the staff of the two attache offices ‘persona non grata’,” and asked them to leave the country within 24 hours.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said the kingdom reserves the right to take military actions “if deemed necessary” in response to the Iranian attacks. “What little trust there was before has completely been shattered… We’re going to use every lever we have — political, economic, diplomatic and otherwise — to get these attacks to stop,” he said.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Tehran did not want to target energy infrastructure but the war entered a new phase after South Pars was targeted. “With the enemy’s aggression against energy infrastructure, Iran has effectively entered a new stage of the conflict, and the necessity to defend the country’s energy infrastructure compelled a retaliatory strike against American-linked energy facilities,” the IRGC said in a statement.

“If this [attack on energy sites] is repeated, subsequent attacks on your energy infrastructure and that of your allies will not cease until total destruction, and our response will be far more severe than tonight’s strikes,” the Guards added.