Iran-Israel War News Live: Fire At Kuwait's Oil Refinery After Drone Attack; US Camp Near Baghdad Airport Targeted
US-Israel-Iran War News Today Latest Updates: The conflict between Iran and Israel entered its 20th day on Thursday, with both sides intensifying military operations. The conflict was fueled after Iran’s South Pars gas field, one of the world’s largest, was attacked by Israeli forces.
In retaliation, Tehran struck Qatar and fired missiles at Saudi Arabia after vowing attacks on oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf. Qatar’s state oil giant QatarEnergy reported “extensive damage” at the Ras Laffan Industrial City after an Iranian missile attack.
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States had no idea about Israel’s strike on South Pars and that Jerusalem attacked the gas field “out of anger”. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran.
A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. 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.
Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility.” Warning Iran against retaliation, he added, “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 – In which instance the United States of America, 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.
I do not want to authorise 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. Thank you for y… As conflict in West Asia continues to escalate, Iran’s national security chief Ali Larijani and top commander of the IRGC’s Basij force, Gholamreza Soleimani, were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump criticised NATO for not helping the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz. According to Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, the US-Israeli attacks on Iran have killed more than 1,300 people, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and top Iranian officials.
Iravani accused the United States and Israel of deliberately targeting civilians by striking “populated residential areas” and “critical civilian infrastructure.” The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) has warned that the toll may be even higher, estimating at least 1,858 people have been killed, including both civilians and military personnel.
Meanwhile, at least 773 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the Iran-backed Hezbollah group launched attacks on Israel, according to the country’s Ministry of Public Health. China condemns the killing of Iranian national security chief Ali Larijani by an Israeli airstrike.
“We have always opposed the use of force in international relations. The acts of killing Iranian state leaders and attacking civilian targets are even more unacceptable,” China’s foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said while addressing the media. BREAKING: Fire breaks out after drone hits Umm Qasr naval base in southern Iraq ????
LIVE updates: https://t.co/p6LWsl5ypW pic.twitter.com/9KMX7jvapm One of the units of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation at the Al Ahmadi Port refinery was attacked by a drone, Arab News reported. Iranians must understand that their actions have consequences as they continue to target economic resources and attack livelihoods of ordinary Saudis, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said, as he condemned Iranian strike…