Trump threatens to 'massively blow up' major Iranian gas field

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Donald Trump has just issued a long Truth Social post about an Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field in Iran on Wednesday night.

In retaliation for that strike, Iran attacked Qatar's Ras Laffan - an industrial area that contains the world's biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facility.

In his strongly-worded post, Trump says the US "knew nothing" of Israel's strike, and threatens an escalation if Iran attacks Qatar again.

"Out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East", Israel "violently lashed out", Trump writes.

He goes on: "The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen."

But Iran didn't know this, Trump writes, and that its retaliatory attacks on Qatar's Ras Laffan were made "unjustifiably and unfairly".

Trump writes - in capitals - that Israel will not attack Iran's South Pars gas field again, "unless Iran unwisely decides to attack" another innocent nation, which in this case was Qatar.

It Iran does strike Qatar again, Trump threatens that the US will "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".

He adds that he doesn't want to authorise "this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications" for Iran, "but if Qatar's LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c24d410m3g4t

So no plan at all.🙄

Iran's ability to threaten ships in Strait of Hormuz 'degraded' after US bombing, says Centcom

The US military says Iran's ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz has been "degraded" after the US bombed an underground facility this week where Iran stored cruise missiles and other weapons.

"We not only took out the facility, but also destroyed intelligence support sites and missile radar relays that were used to monitor ship movements," Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command (Centcom) says in video message posted on X.

"Iran's ability to threaten freedom of navigation in and around the Strait of Hormuz is degraded as a result, and we will not stop pursuing these targets," he added.

In the same clip he also says that over 8,000 Iranian military targets have been struck by the US, including 130 Iranian vessels.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce84073mr06t

Unfortunately Trump hasn't shared his plan with me or anyone on MN that I'm aware of. But to assume there is no plan just because they aren't currently broadcasting details is naïve.

Ok if this happens does Iran’s ability to get to nuclear weapon production concern you?

Oh right, I thought I missed something when you said The Straight of Hormuz will be dealt with.

Given the disastrous chaos so far and panicked, confusing messaging from Trump, I think assuming a plan exists is naive.

Lol maybe you're right and they are just going to allow Iran to carry on doing what they are doing for as long as they want to.

Sounds unlikely but time will tell.

No.

Bold ... you must not live in a country they want to destroy.

They didn't even want a nuclear weapon and the JCPOA ensured this.

The Americans tore this up.

The Iranians, as per Oman and British intelligence, were about to give very favourable terms to the negotiations ongoing in February.

The Americans and Israelis attacked anyway.

Want to know which country I am afraid of? The United States and Israel and their warmongering.

And you want to know the funny thing? The Iranians now have ZERO reason to trust the Americans ever again and they have killed off all the moderates, like the previous Ayatollah and his fatwa against nuclear weaponry and the liberal political leaders who were gullible enough to still meet on the 28 February to decide what to do about the next meeting in the negotiations, shortly before they got vaporised by American and Israeli weapons that also went and double tapped (war crime) a primary school.

Good for them. Iran should never have to deal with such perfidy ever again.

Yeah, yeah ... tell it to someone who might believe that shit about the Iranian regime not wanting a nuclear weapon.

The whole of the G7 and EU as well as the US & Israel wouldn't be concerned if we all believed that Iran weren't working towards nuclear capabilities.

But we don't believe that.

G7 leaders: ‘Iran can never have a nuclear weapon’ (June 2025)

The leaders of the G7 countries on Monday issued a joint statement saying Iran should not have nuclear weapons and affirming Israel's right to defend itself.
"Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror. We have been consistently clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon," declared the statement, issued by the leaders of the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan, along with the EU.

www.politico.eu/article/g7-leaders-iran-can-never-have-a-nuclear-weapon/

Weird, then, how they've had nearly 50 years to make one. And for fifty year, we've been told they're making a nuke.

The DPRK, a far less advanced nation, has had nukes for years. Care to explain this?

How many nations has Iran invaded in the last 50 years?

Good dodge on answering my question above, by the way.

You have a short or selective memory if you don't remember that Iran invaded Israel in 2023 via one of their proxies, Hamas.

Hmm, history lesson, is it? Let me try.

"So this is how we get rid of that madman Mossadegh," announced John Foster
Dulles to a group of top Washington policy makers one day in June 1953.1 The
Secretary of State held in his hand a plan of operation to overthrow the prime minister of Iran prepared by Kermit (Kim) Roosevelt of the CIA. There was scarcely any discussion amongst the high-powered men in the room, no probing questions, no legal or ethical issues raised.

A military show of force by the British navy was followed by a ruthless
international economic blockade and boycott, and a freezing of Iranian assets which brought Iran's oil exports and foreign trade to a virtual standstill, plunged the already impoverished country into near destitution, and made payment of any compensation impossible. Nonetheless, and long after they had moved to oust Mossadegh, the British demanded compensation not only for the physical assets of the AIOC, but for the value of their enterprise in developing the oil fields; a request impossible to meet, and, in the eyes of Iranian nationalists, something which decades of huge British profits had paid for many times over.

The British attempt at economic strangulation of Iran could not have gotten off
the ground without the active co-operation and support of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations and American oil companies. At the same time, the Truman administration argued with the British that Mossadegh's collapse could open the door to the proverbial communist takeover.4 When the British were later expelled from Iran, however, they had no alternative but to turn to the United States for assistance in toppling Mossadegh. In November 1952, the Churchill government approached Roosevelt, the de facto head of the CIA's Middle East division, who told the British that he felt that there was "no chance to win approval from the outgoing administration of Truman and Acheson. The new Republicans, however, might be quite different."

...

The notorious Iranian secret police, SAVAK, created under the guidance of the
CIA and Israel, spread its tentacles all over the world to punish Iranian dissidents. According to a former CIA analyst on Iran, SAVAK was instructed in torture techniques by the Agency.43 Amnesty International summed up the situation in 1976 by noting that Iran had the "highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of torture which is beyond belief. No country in the world has a worse record in human rights than Iran." When to this is added a level of corruption that "startled even the most hardened observers of Middle Eastern thievery", it is understandable that the Shah needed his huge military and police force, maintained by unusually large US aid and training programs,46 to keep the lid down for as long as he did. Said Senator Hubert Humphrey, apparently with some surprise:

Do you know what the head of the Iranian Army told one of our people? He said
the Army was in good shape, thanks to U.S. aid—it was now capable of coping
with the civilian population. That Army isn't going to fight the Russians. It's
planning to fight the Iranian people.

Still waiting on your answer, by the way.

Weird, then, how they've had nearly 50 years to make one. And for fifty year, we've been told they're making a nuke.
The DPRK, a far less advanced nation, has had nukes for years. Care to explain this?

What has that got to do with the post you quoted:

You have a short or selective memory if you don't remember that Iran invaded Israel in 2023 via one of their proxies, Hamas.

No.

Care to explain how you "forgot" the country that Iran invaded in 2023 via their proxy, Hamas?

That's probably a No too.

It has everything to do with it. Let me guess, you're one of those liberals who never learned that history doesn't just go back to when you see fit and that actions have consequences.

Yes, why, indeed, did the Gazans commit that atrocity in October of that year? Real head scratcher... if you don't know the first thing about the Middle East, because I guess history only started on 7th October 2023.

Also apparently Yemen via the Houthis, Lebanon via Hezbollah, Iraq, Syria & Afghan insurgency brought to you by the IRGC. I wonder if they will help the Taliban against Pakistan's current activities. It was after Iran lobbed some missiles into Pakistan in 2024 that Pakistan and Saudi brokered their mutual defence pact.
Maybe the disparate groups in Iran will listen to reason from the big boys in China. Apparently the Uyghurs are all hunky dory so that's a relief.

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