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SvennoJ on 19 March 2026
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Trump Begs No More Oil Strikes, Larijani Dead, Iran Confident


Update March 19 with Professor Seyed M. Marandi from Tehran: As the war drags on and the US/Israelis keep killing Iranian leaders and civilians, Iran's military strategy is not changing and actually producing first results. Donald Trump just put out a tweet that his coalition will not attack Iranian oil fields anymore and that they want Iran to do the same. The symmetrical strikes are driving home the point that the US cannot bomb anymore with impunity. Real hurt will come to the US and its economy if Iran retaliates as it just did toward the Gulf monarchies. This is a big development, although, of course, it could just be another ruse or deception. In any case, the Iranians are adamant about keeping to their strategy, and, according to S. Marandi, they have not even touched their most powerful weapons yet.

 

Trump says US “knew nothing” about Israeli strike on gas field. Sources contradict that

President Donald Trump said the United States “knew nothing” about an Israeli strike on Iranian facilities in the South Pars gas field – the world’s largest natural gas reserve.

But an Israeli source familiar with the attack told CNN on Wednesday that Israel had carried out the attack in coordination with the US, contradicting the president’s claim. A US source also told CNN that the US was “aware” of the strike.

The strike was seen as a major escalation in the war. Israel had previously attacked a number of Iranian fuel depots, but had until Wednesday refrained from striking oil and natural gas production facilities.

In response, Iran attacked major energy facilities in neighboring Gulf states, causing what Qatar said was “extensive damage” at its main energy hub, Ras Laffan. The tit-for-tat strikes caused energy prices to soar, and analysts have warned that the damage at Ras Laffan could trigger a lasting global gas shortage.

 

As Iran strikes Gulf energy sites, Trump says Israel won’t hit its gas field again — but US will if attacks go on

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-israel-will-no-longer-hit-iran-gas-field-but-us-will-if-qatar-sites-struck-again/

US President Donald Trump said early Thursday that he would not allow another Israeli attack on Iran’s South Pars natural gas field, after the IDF struck the key energy site the previous day.

Trump’s statement came after Iran attacked targets across the Gulf, including a gas hub in Qatar and oil and gas facilities in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, in response to the strike. The attacks were Iran’s latest targeting of the region amid the war with Israel and the US that began on February 28.

Iran, the US and Gulf states traded threats after the strike. Iran threatened further attacks on Gulf states if its energy sites were hit again. Trump, in turn, warned Iran to cease its attacks on Qatar’s energy infrastructure, and Saudi Arabia said it reserved the right to military action after it was attacked.

"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,” Trump wrote.

If such an Iranian attack takes place, the US — “with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars gas field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before,” Trump added.

“I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so,” he wrote.

 

Iran threatens to torpedo the world economy, so in turn Trump threatens to torpedo the world economy even more....

Mutual assured destruction, no nukes needed, just targeting oil and gas fields.