The assault targeted offshore facilities in Bushehr province belonging to the world's largest natural gas deposit, which Iran jointly operates with Qatar.

Trump condemned the Israeli action in unusually sharp language, describing it as Israel having “violently lashed out” at the Iranian facility.

He insisted the United States played no role whatsoever in the strike.

“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,” Trump declared.

Qatar’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Ras Laffan Industrial City later sustained “significant damage” in an Iranian missile strike, while the UAE suspended operations of the Habshan gas facility and the Bab oilfield amid missile attacks.

“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field,” Trump wrote.

“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,” he claimed.

Iran responded forcefully to the Israeli aggression, launching missile strikes that caused “significant damage” to Qatar’s key liquefied natural gas export facility at Ras Laffan Industrial City.

The United Arab Emirates, in turn, temporarily suspended operations at the Habshan gas facility and the Bab oilfield following related missile threats.

These developments underscored Iran's resolve to defend its sovereignty and economic interests against unprovoked attacks.

Earlier reporting by The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had prior knowledge of and supported Israel's plan to strike South Pars.

“Trump, who knew about the Israeli strike on South Pars in advance, supported it as a message to Tehran over its block of the Strait of Hormuz,” the Journal stated, citing unnamed US officials.

The strike on South Pars represented a dangerous escalation, marking the first direct attack on active fossil fuel production facilities in the ongoing war.

Previously, energy production sites had largely been spared to avoid triggering widespread retaliatory strikes across the Persian Gulf's critical energy infrastructure.

Analysts warn that continued targeting of such strategic assets risks plunging the region—and the global economy—into severe disruption through spiraling attacks on oil and gas facilities.

Iran maintains its right to respond proportionately to aggression against its sovereign economic lifelines, while the international community watches anxiously as tensions threaten the stability of global energy markets.