US President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to "massively blow up" a vast Iranian gas field unless Tehran stops striking Qatari energy facilities.
Washington "knew nothing" of Israel's earlier attack on Iran's South Pars gas field, he said, vowing that "NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL" on the site if Tehran stops attacking Qatar.
But if Iran did not comply, the United States would "massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field," Trump warned.
Energy prices have already spiraled since tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries a fifth of the world's oil, was brought to a near standstill by the threat of Iranian attacks.
Since launching the war on Iran on February 28, US and Israeli forces have depleted Iran’s leadership in a string of strikes, the latest killing intelligence chief Esmail Khatib.
