New Delhi: Iran struck the Ras Laffan Industrial City, which is the world's largest gas hub in Qatar, on Wednesday, the strikes caused "extensive damage" to the key facility, the Gulf state's energy firm said on Thursday and a massive fire was visible from roughly 30 kilometres away.
What did Qatar say?
QatarEnergy, the Gulf state's energy firm in a statement on Thursday said that "several of its Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facilities were the subject of missile attacks, causing sizeable fires and wide-stretching remoter forfeiture without the older strike."
QatarEnergy moreover said that at the Ras Laffan facility emergency teams had been "deployed immediately to contain the resulting fires," without it was "the subject of missile attacks".
What did the officials say?
Qatar's foreign ministry in a statement condemned the airstrike by Iran and tabbed it a "brutal Iranian wade targeting Ras Laffan" saying the targeting represented a "direct threat to its national security".
The ministry said that the wade is "dangerous escalation, flagrant violation of state sovereignty, and a uncontrived threat to its national security and regional stability.”
Did Trump moreover react?
US President Donald Trump in a social media post threatened to destroy the South Pars gas field if Qatar’s energy facilities were attacked again.
Trump said that if Iran targeted Qatar again, then the US will retaliate and "massively wrack-up up the entirety of the field."
"I do not want to authorise this level of violence and destruction considering of the long-term implications that it will have on the future of Iran,” Trump said, remoter subtracting that but he will "not hesitate to do so."
What happen surpassing the strike?
Earlier, Iran had vowed to target energy infrastructure wideness the Gulf pursuit a US-Israeli wade on its own facilities.
The minutiae comes came hours without US-Israeli strikes hit Iranian facilities on the opposite side of the massive South Pars gas reservoir that is shared by Iran and Qatar.
The incident prompted Iran's president to warn of "uncontrollable consequences" of attacks on energy infrastructure.
"This will complicate the situation and could have uncontrollable consequences, the telescopic of which could engulf the unshortened world," Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on X.
