President Donald Trump threatened to destroy Iran’s South Pars gas field on Wednesday if Tehran carries out another strike on Qatar’s liquefied natural gas facilities, warning of massive retaliation as tensions escalate across the Gulf.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said the United States would respond with overwhelming force if Iran targets Qatar again.
“I will not hesitate” to act, Trump said, adding that the United States would “massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength never seen or witnessed before.”
The warning follows a series of escalating strikes tied to the widening conflict between Iran and Israel that has increasingly drawn in neighboring countries and critical energy infrastructure.
Trump said Israel had “violently lashed out” at Iran’s South Pars gas field, the world’s largest natural gas reserve shared between Iran and Qatar, but emphasized that the United States had no prior knowledge of the attack and that Qatar “was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it.”
According to Trump, Iran retaliated by striking a portion of Qatar’s LNG infrastructure, which he described as an unjustified response due to Iran’s ignorance of the circumstances.
Trump also drew a red line preventing further escalation involving the strategically vital gas field, which underpins a significant share of global energy supply.
“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,” the president said, adding that an Iranian strike on Qatar would trigger U.S. action regardless of Israeli involvement.
After the attack, the main gas facility at Ras Laffan in Qatar declared several Iranian Embassy attaches persona non grata. The Qatari Foreign Minister said the attack violated the country’s sovereignty and security.
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Qatar had previously sought to maintain a working relationship with Tehran despite regional tensions.
However, repeated strikes on its territory, including energy facilities and areas near U.S. military installations, have strained those ties, especially after Wednesday’s events and past Iranian missiles and drones that struck multiple sites in Qatar, leaving at least 16 people injured.
