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American-Israeli strikes hit gas storage tanks at Iran’s South Pars field in the southern Iranian city of Asaluyeh on March 18, halting production at two refineries with a combined capacity of about 100 million cubic meters per day, Iranian media reported.
The South Pars field is the world’s largest natural gas reservoir, supplying approximately 70% of Iran’s domestic gas and holding nearly 8% of the world’s total reserves.
Loud explosions were heard across multiple refinery sites in Asaluyeh following the attack, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency, which said that several gas storage tanks and parts of the refinery infrastructure were targeted across different operational phases, including units three, four, five, and six.
The news agency added that employees were evacuated to safe areas, while firefighting and rescue teams were working to contain blazes triggered by the strike.
The attack took place right after Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, was killed in an Israeli strike in Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic, overnight, adding that “significant surprises” are to be expected later in the day.
APF, citing Israeli officials, reported that the South Pars field was targeted by the Israeli Air Force. This was confirmed by the Axios news website, which revealed that the attack was approved by the U.S.
Around the time the attack was reported, U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: “I wonder what would happen if we ]finished off’ what’s left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it, we don’t, be responsible for the so called ‘Straight?’ That would get some of our non-responsive ‘Allies’ in gear, and fast!!!”
Iran’s state television later published a threat, saying that the Islamic Republic will be attacking oil and gas infrastructure in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The threats targeted Saudi Arabia’s Samref Refinery and its Jubail Petrochemical Complex. It also threatened the UAE’s Al Hasan Gas Field and the petrochemical plants and a refinery in Qatar.
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Despite all the threats from Iran, Qatar condemned the attack on the South Pars field, calling it “dangerous and irresponsible.”
“The Israeli targeting of facilities linked to Iran’s South Pars field, an extension of Qatar’s North Field, is a dangerous & irresponsible step amid the current military escalation in the region,” said Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari on X.
“Targeting energy infrastructure constitutes a threat to global energy security, as well as to the peoples of the region & its environment,” he continues, calling on all sides not to target “vital facilities.”
The attack represents a major escalation in the war on Iran, which was started by the U.S. and Israel more than two weeks ago.
Iran will likely follow up with its threats, and Trump’s latest remarks indicate that this may be the main goal of the attack. Having failed to pressure Iran into reopening the Strait of Hormuz after threatening its main oil exporting hub, Kharg Island, then to form an international coalition to escort vessels going through the highway, the U.S. is now apparently trying to drag Gulf countries into the war.
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the reparations fees are bound to rise before this is over. this was always predictable as a target. qatar will not be able without irans consent and included reparations tolls. the dollar is a useless as currency. good bye !
qatar might try some pipeline plan / scheme. but it would end up like nord stream where biden said russia blew it up
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qatar has no oil–a pipeline to saudi or iran would benefit them
qatar doesn’t need iran at all except to create instability. qatar owns a huge part of the city of london and doesn’t need any one although they did give trump, or the usa, that 168 million dollar jet as a gift
swallow more hebrew jizz americunt–it will make you believe you are less stupid
swedish citizen executed in iran. the swedish nazi regime thinks its terrible ! death penalty should be reserved for people that search hospital care, and have done nothing, according to the regime ! string up every parasite in the “government”.
tehran leaders hit; 300 basij commanders struck; lebanon shakes
load up those missiles with zyklon b. exterminate every kike.
but yet…..no regime change
wrong the ayatollahs gone, his next replacement are gone, the guy who really was running it is deceased now too and the son who is allegedly running iran now hasn’t been seen for almost a month but it has leaked that he is gay so that’s a big regime change. allegedly
with a population of 90 million iran has no shortage of qualified people to replace them.
and who will get contributions to their re-election
guess i can’t say who is gonna make more moola doing this
it’s called opec. and no one even needs them. venezuala alone can meet the world’s oil needs. that’s what they don’t want you to know. imo
shut up moron americunt—venezuealan crude inferior expensive to refine—return to your lgbt trailer park for re-education
awaiting approval they get touchey when you point out who benefits
crispy goatfuckers served for lunch!
heheheh
when their lives are ruined by joo chicanery, when they are jobless, cold and hungry in the dystopian nightmare the jooz have created, the goyim will finally turn on the joo parasites and stamp them out like the poisonous maggots they are.
“form an international coalition to escort vessels going through the highway”
oh, wait. if that “strategy” works out, the strait could be pushed open, but there won’t be any oil or gas to export through it.
no first only 20 % of the worlds oil passes that route. they want everyone to think its 100% second its a safe for them now. 90 ships have passed already. third, trumps organised insurance. fourth they’re (the liner owners) are playing the game by with holding transit with intentions allegedly
and who owns the ships that won’t sail?
moron americunt peasant–typical peniz licker
a 20% hole in supply means global depression, global inflation, global unemployment. the price of the remaining 80% goes ballistic. europe, india, many other countries are totally f….d. thanks to the jooz and their amerikunt whores. no ship from any enemy country has passed or will pass through hormuz. joo stooges like france and italy are begging for free passage. any ship trying to sneak through will be hit.
trumpy’s wizard wheeze insurance scheme collapsed before it even got off the ground. lloyds have pulled the plug on ship insurance. iran doesn’t need to lay a single mine. the jooz and their whores are clueless, trying to find a way out of the quagmire they have created. they are already begging for a ceasefire, begging china, russia, the pope, anybody, to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. they are f….d. economic apocalypse.
number of tankers stranded at hormuz: 700.
we want someone who can stand shoulder to shoulder with iran.putin should be forcefully remove he is also like puppet sudis,uae,turkey of trump.
the current strategy of shitrael and ussa is pure anger. they have nothing left
hahaha haha
all they can do is bomb and murder kiddies. they will achieve nothing.
superior russians laughing at dumb inferior americunt species—all iran missile targeting done by russian intel specialists
every disaster contains within it new opportunities. the amerikunts are being led by the nose by the jooz and used as dumb muscle or a pet golem in their endless wars of aggression. the jooz have already said that after iran they intend to start new wars, first with turkey and then with pakistan. and the amerikunts are expected to pony up the blood and treasure to enable further mayhem. but even the most low iq maga retards are starting to wise up and reject joo slavery.
where the whole financial system, the whole of the media, jewllywood, and the entire political system is completely controlled by jooz through bribery and epstein blackmail. the amerikunts need to liberate themselves and get off the joo plantation just like the black people were liberated 160 years ago. this war may be a golden opportunity to finally break the chains of joo slavery. this will not be easy. but as the jooz drive the amerikunts into the abyss things become possible.